Terry,
It cannot be turned off, unless you uninstall Outlook and reinstall it without the security patch.
The other option is to bypass Outlook completely, using something like Mail/X control from Mabry, or wwipstuff from Westwind.
>We are building an applicaiton that uses MSOutlook 2000 to send email. VFP laucnhes Outlook and attempts to send the email. We get the following MessageBox from outlook:
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>A Program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf.
>Do you want to allow this?
>If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No".
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>How do we turn this off?
Steve Gibson