Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Would you like to become a spammer? Yes - No - Help

There is nothing worse than a non-message. Check this out: A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook. A program? What the hell... could the message get any less specific? The window title shows Outlook itself. Does that mean Outlook is the program and it's asking me whether it can access its own addresses? That'd be pretty funny and doesn't make any sense.

So do I want to allow this? Honestly, I have no idea. For sure I don't want any spyware to call home, but why would any spyware/adware/malware access my addresses in the first place, since the potential email receiver is certainly not in my address book. Could I have caught a virus that attempts to use my account to spam everyone I know? Unlikely. So what is that mysterious program and why does it want to mess with my addresses? I have a suspicion that it is the Outlook search engine Lookout, because it just flagged an indexing error and stopped operating until I voted No on the message above.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Say Nooo!

November 09, 2007 9:32 PM  

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