application effectively helps you to restore .pst file of any version of MS Outlook, beginning with MS Outlook 97

In my case, I have seen buffer overflow protection is disabled because I have HIP installed in it, In this case how can we proceed as I don’t see any exclution list in HIP

cheers

Still, huge thanks for this information. :)

I was running into the issue and thought it was just my PC, until one of the executives called in to mention he was having the exact same problem.

We are beginning to roll out Office 2007 and I was able to catch this issue and have the exception added to our EPO server before this caused big problems across our enterprise

Gene

Thanks!

I agree, that by disabling buffer overflow protection in outlook you are opening up an attack surface for your computer. That being said, I don’t agree that this change to the AV client introduces an unacceptable level of risk for the average user or corporation.
The primary method which malicious emails infect the desktop are through attachments and malformed/malicious HTML. With this in mind, there are several ways which Outlook protects you from these threats such as Disallowing Programmatic Access, Disable of attachment preview and my Favorite, the option to convert all email to Plain Text prior to displaying it to the user. That being said, each user/company will need to make their own decision based on benefit vs. risk and the level of risk they are willing to accept. For me personally, I see this as very low risk (otherwise I would not have recommended it to my users).

You might as well unistall McAfee because most viruses come from email especailly outlook which has many security holes….

Sounds odd but I think your right. Your IT guys must have pushed out something. You should give them the link so they can adjust the policy (if it makes sense for your org.).

I also used this opportunity to clear out the Outlook Auto Complete cache (Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.nk2). While this will be a pain in the short term as I build it back up, things are very responsive again and like many others I’m not ready to chuck things out the window!

I’m not sure why this started happening all of a sudden (within the last week or so) when I’ve had Outlook 2007 running for months. Perhaps our IT organization pushed out something with McAfee that impacted this??