<img style="float: right" src="http://www.iexbeta.com/images/news/logos/iexOffice.gif">Microsoft Corp.'s latest set of updates for Office XP is causing headaches for users of two junk mail filtering products.

After installing Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), users of Sunbelt Software Inc.'s iHateSpam and Cloudmark Inc.'s SpamNet are complaining about security warnings popping up with each e-mail message they receive, according to reports Thursday on the Windows NTBugtraq mailing list.

Both Sunbelt and Cloudmark acknowledge the problem and have posted support bulletins on their Web sites. Sunbelt has released an update to its software to fix the problem while Cloudmark states it is working with Microsoft to solve the issue.

Office XP SP3 was released on Tuesday and contains security enhancements for the Office suite in addition to stability and performance improvements, according to Microsoft's Web site.

After installing SP3, each e-mail received triggers a dialog alerting the user that a program is trying to access e-mail addresses stored in Outlook and warning that this could be related to a computer virus. There is no indication of what program is accessing Outlook, according to the NTBugtraq posting.

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News source: InfoWorld

MS didnt think about the compatability that much when they was developing SP3, same with SP2 for XP. lol, they better think about the compatability alittle more if and when they build a next SP.

I use spam filter SpamBully for OutlookXP from http://www.spambully.com. After installed Service Pack 3 for Office XP I have no problems. It has always worked very well at filtering spam.

Thanks for letting us know Draob.