Office update clogs spam filters - News - ZDNet:
"A recent update for Microsoft's Office software is blocking several popular spam filters, and software makers are scrambling to find a fix to the fixes.

The problems have occurred since the release earlier this week of Service Pack 3 for Office XP and 2000, which are recent versions of Microsoft's widespread productivity package. The patches and big fixes in SP3 included a number of security fixes for Office's widely used e-mail client, Outlook.

Shortly after SP3 was released, users started reporting problems to the makers of several popular products for filtering out junk e-mail. They said every time their spam filter tried to intercept a message, Outlook would pop up a warning message that another application was trying to access Outlook's address book. …"

"If they were to click, 'yes,' 'yes,' 'yes' (in Outlook), it would work for them," Fahey said. "It's just a pain.…"

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