If my system was sending e-mails without my express permission, I would be
very alarmed! This sounds like virus activity - or you are not explaining
the issue well..
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Aalaan wrote:
Is this a feature on Word 2000? It may explain some previously
inexplicable email sending that seems to go on while I'm on line and
not consciously sending anything.
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
news
Word regularly connects to the Internet to update Help and report
changes you may have added to your Custom.dic (this may influence
whether these get added to the main spelling checker at a later
update) and other service options.
--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP
"Jean-Pierre" wrote in message
...
Hello,
Since a few days, everytime I start WORD, I get the message from my
anti-virus
that WORD has been recently modified, that it tries to access the
INTERNET and
that I should deny the permission unless I am sure that the
modification is due
to an update.
The connection details are :
OUTBOUND connection -
Protocol TCP -
Remote IP address :12.158.80.10
Destination port : 20480
The incriminated program is : WINWORD.EXE
Created : Jan 16, 2007 - 10:53:18 PM
Modified : Jan 16, 2007 - 10:53:18 PM
(The creation/modification date & time does not correspond to any
known action
of mine !)
I am not aware that I modified / updated WORD.
I updated my Anti-Virus (PANDA) and performed a full scan of the
computer
no
"malware" was detected.
I ran SPYBOT (after udating it) : Nothing found.
I ran Ad-Aware (after updating it) : it found 8 tracking cookies and
removed
them.
I re-started WORD and got again the message about WORD trying to
access the NET.
I do not understand why WORD should access the NET. Is there any
reason for it
or any setting requiring it ?
The address (12.158.80.10) seems to be from VERISIGN. Why should
WORD have to
connect to the VERISIGN site ?
Operating system is W2K - SP4
OFFICE version is 2002-SP3
Thank you in advance.
Jean-Pierre
Belgium