My computer is giving me a note saying "a program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose no
Allow access for ...
Yes No Help"
what does this mean? is someone trying to get in to my computer and is it possible to read my emails? (it is at a company)
2006-09-11 20:36:31 · 7 answers · asked by dEe-DeE 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
you should download a spyware program such as "spyware search and destroy" and run it on your machine.
It is most likely spyware. when you run the program immunize the system, and allow it to fix any errors that it finds.
2006-09-11 20:43:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you recently installed any other software that you would want to receive your email. If yes, that is the programme which is try to load your email addresses list. If not, simply click NO and try to run anti-virus programme.
If you are using Outlook Express to receive your email and suddenly you setup a new account on MS Outlook then MS Outlook would generate a similar message as the one indicated in your question so that you do not need to add the email addresses manually.
Hope this helps.
2006-09-11 20:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kurt 2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that doesnt happen to my outlook,...
possibly an spyware, or virus....
run antivirus immedeately...
or if you know more about task manager, go to it ctrl+alt+del
and look for the suspicious running program, click on it then
hit end process, just be very careful.... then search that process,
find where it is hiding then delete it....
note be careful you might delete important windows files....
2006-09-11 20:47:13 · answer #3 · answered by erwin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely don't allow this, it's some virus or trojan horse that is trying to send spam mail using your address book.
2006-09-11 20:47:23 · answer #4 · answered by Kainoa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DO NOT ALLOW. Run a virus scan ASAP.
2006-09-11 20:43:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it happened to one of the employees here once, i don't really remember what did i do, but it was either, re-installing the office, or i did format the PC.....
2006-09-11 20:44:41 · answer #6 · answered by Gossai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do not allow it....scan your pc....
2006-09-11 20:46:35 · answer #7 · answered by <--tsk--> 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋