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23/03/2010 08:31:33
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22/03/2010 21:04:42
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Forum:
Internet
Category:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01456067
Message ID:
01456429
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27
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Quite often the COMODO Firewall reports that IE (ver 6.0) is trying to use Outlook via Office Automation. I was wondering, what kind of things IE could be doing via Outlook?
>>>
>>>TIA.
>>
>>I just got a message that FireFox is doing the same thing:
>>
>>
>>So what are all these browsers want my Outlook for?
>
>Have you been trying to send an e-mail? If not, sounds like a virus.
No, I don't think it has anything to do with email. I think it has to do with some sites. When you navigate to them they attempt to connect to Outlook (via IE/Firefox). I will keep an eye on them.
>>>
>>>Quite often the COMODO Firewall reports that IE (ver 6.0) is trying to use Outlook via Office Automation. I was wondering, what kind of things IE could be doing via Outlook?
>>>
>>>TIA.
>>
>>I just got a message that FireFox is doing the same thing:
>>
>>
>>Firefox.exe has tried to use OUTLOOK.EXE through OLE Automation, which can be used to hijack other application. >>>>
>>So what are all these browsers want my Outlook for?
>
>Have you been trying to send an e-mail? If not, sounds like a virus.
No, I don't think it has anything to do with email. I think it has to do with some sites. When you navigate to them they attempt to connect to Outlook (via IE/Firefox). I will keep an eye on them.
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham