OL2000: The 'Get a Digital ID' Button Includes the Name and E-mail Address in the Generated URL

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This article was previously published under Q298364

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SYMPTOMS

When you use the Get a Digital ID button in the Security Options dialog box, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that includes your name and e-mail address is generated and passed to Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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CAUSE

This behavior is by design to allow previous versions of Microsoft Outlook to interact with the Verisign digital ID center to automate the retrieval of a digital ID. Because virus writers sometimes exploit URLs to obtain e-mail information, Microsoft has decided to remove the name and e-mail information from the URL.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

276367 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276367/EN-US/ ) OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Version      Size      File name
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  5.5.2655.7   268,560   Exsec32.dll

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).

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