Powerpoint file accesses the web, how, where, what, why ?

Wow, thank you for this suggestion!
Until now, I had always been opening it from my Outlook inbox.
So now I saved it to my hard drive, NO MORE POPUP WARNINGS!
The warnings only come when i open it directly from outlook, so it must be
some script embedded in the forwarded email!!! Maybe it is tracking who is
getting the email, and who opens it, etc.
So I guess this means that the .ppt file is fine, but I need to decipher the
email message now.
Is it time to do some asking in a different newsgroup...??
Thanks a lot for the help.
(now i really have to figure this one out: either we have a spy employee, or
an employee got his PC hacked into, or his email corrupted somehow.)

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...
Yes, I "dummied" it. The actual address is a competitor of my company,
hence my suspiciousness!!!!

That puts it in a different light, certainly!
As you've figured out, that pretty well shoots down the usual reasons for
net
access.

It'd be interesting to see if you can narrow it down to a particular slide
or
slides (make a couple copies of the presentation, delete the first half of
the
slides in one, the second half in the other, save and see if either or
both
exhibit the problem. Then keep dividing until you can isolate a slide
with the
problem from the others. And if you can, I'd be *very* interested in
seeing
it.)

I got too excited from this that I forgot that the popup says "POWERPNT.EXE"
is trying to access blahblah.com.
So, for some reason it does not access when I open from the hard drive, but
it accesses when I open it from outlook.
Hmmm...

Maybe something gets lost just from the simple act of me clicking SAVE to
put in on my hard drive??

thanks

"clea" wrote in message
...
Wow, thank you for this suggestion!
Until now, I had always been opening it from my Outlook inbox.
So now I saved it to my hard drive, NO MORE POPUP WARNINGS!
The warnings only come when i open it directly from outlook, so it must be
some script embedded in the forwarded email!!!

You might want to post the question in the Outlook Express NG.

"clea" wrote in message
...
I got too excited from this that I forgot that the popup says
"POWERPNT.EXE"
is trying to access blahblah.com.
So, for some reason it does not access when I open from the hard drive,
but
it accesses when I open it from outlook.
Hmmm...

Maybe something gets lost just from the simple act of me clicking SAVE to
put in on my hard drive??

thanks

"clea" wrote in message
...
Wow, thank you for this suggestion!
Until now, I had always been opening it from my Outlook inbox.
So now I saved it to my hard drive, NO MORE POPUP WARNINGS!
The warnings only come when i open it directly from outlook, so it must
be
some script embedded in the forwarded email!!!

In article , Clea wrote:
Wow, thank you for this suggestion!
Until now, I had always been opening it from my Outlook inbox.
So now I saved it to my hard drive, NO MORE POPUP WARNINGS!
The warnings only come when i open it directly from outlook, so it must be
some script embedded in the forwarded email!!! Maybe it is tracking who is
getting the email, and who opens it, etc.
So I guess this means that the .ppt file is fine, but I need to decipher the
email message now.
Is it time to do some asking in a different newsgroup...??
Thanks a lot for the help.

Any time. After seeing your other msg, I still wonder whether there's
something in the email that triggers the connection attempt.

I don't use Outlook - is there some way to view the email content as plain text
rather than as whatever formatted/html'd/thing it normally shows you?



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Steve - the reason I couldn't easily download from your website: BLACK ICE!
The previous day, I had installed some company software that secretly
installed a copy of Black Ice. After I couldn't download several other
files, I began to investigate, and found the Black Ice installer in a
company folder... So, your website was fine, it was my end.
thanks.

I still don't know what could be happening with the powerpoint presentation.
I don't get the warning when i open it from the hard-drive, only when I open
it from the email attachment.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...

Weird. I've checked it a couple times today and it's worked fine. It
might
have been a temporary glitch at the network or server end, I suppose.

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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I forwarded it to a webmail account, and forwarded it back, and it still
does it.

I suppose there is a chance that *my* machine is somehow affected and doing
this???


"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...
In article , Clea wrote:
Wow, thank you for this suggestion!
Until now, I had always been opening it from my Outlook inbox.
So now I saved it to my hard drive, NO MORE POPUP WARNINGS!
The warnings only come when i open it directly from outlook, so it must
be
some script embedded in the forwarded email!!! Maybe it is tracking who
is
getting the email, and who opens it, etc.
So I guess this means that the .ppt file is fine, but I need to decipher
the
email message now.
Is it time to do some asking in a different newsgroup...??
Thanks a lot for the help.

Any time. After seeing your other msg, I still wonder whether there's
something in the email that triggers the connection attempt.

I don't use Outlook - is there some way to view the email content as plain
text
rather than as whatever formatted/html'd/thing it normally shows you?



--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

In article , Clea wrote:
Steve - the reason I couldn't easily download from your website: BLACK ICE!
The previous day, I had installed some company software that secretly
installed a copy of Black Ice. After I couldn't download several other
files, I began to investigate, and found the Black Ice installer in a
company folder... So, your website was fine, it was my end.
thanks.

Ah, that feels SO much better. Thanks for taking the time to check it out AND
to let me know.

I still don't know what could be happening with the powerpoint presentation.
I don't get the warning when i open it from the hard-drive, only when I open
it from the email attachment.

I saw the other post (about forwarding it back to yourself). I don't think
that'd necessarily indicate a problem at your end, since you'd just be
receiving the same email as you originally got; if the problem's with the
email, it'll stay with the email.

It'd be worth asking in the Outlook group to see whether a) they've heard of
anything like this and b) the other thing that I though of but forgot while I
was typing a) ... OH! To see whether they know of any way to export the email
content as plain text.

Or for that matter, if you want to forward the email to me at steve atsign
steverindsberg period com I'll have a look (with the understanding that it will
not be passed along or shared with anyone from here).




"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...

Weird. I've checked it a couple times today and it's worked fine. It
might
have been a temporary glitch at the network or server end, I suppose.

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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
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October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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I know that sometimes PPT will trigger the trip to the web if someone's copied an image and then pasted it into PPT. It seems that some of the HTML tags or the URL or whatever can get included with the paste, and that triggers the web access.

I don't know that this would trigger as an actual link using FixLinks. Steve would have to fill me in on that.

I'd probably save the file as HTML and then view it in IE to see if the source info has any oddball URLs in them.

I'd probably try the same thing with the Outlook email itself. Save as a TXT file and then see if there's anything in the HTML code which points to the competitor site. I don't know much about this, but there are 1-pixel tracking gifs and things like that which may be the source of the problem.

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http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



"clea" wrote:

Steve - the reason I couldn't easily download from your website: BLACK ICE!
The previous day, I had installed some company software that secretly
installed a copy of Black Ice. After I couldn't download several other
files, I began to investigate, and found the Black Ice installer in a
company folder... So, your website was fine, it was my end.
thanks.

I still don't know what could be happening with the powerpoint presentation.
I don't get the warning when i open it from the hard-drive, only when I open
it from the email attachment.

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...

Weird. I've checked it a couple times today and it's worked fine. It
might
have been a temporary glitch at the network or server end, I suppose.

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

In article , Echo S wrote:
I know that sometimes PPT will trigger the trip to the web if someone's copied an image
and then pasted it into PPT. It seems that some of the HTML tags or the URL or whatever can
get included with the paste, and that triggers the web access.

I don't know that this would trigger as an actual link using FixLinks. Steve would have
to fill me in on that.

I don't really know either; that's one reason I'm so interested in following this up. I've
never gotten hold of a presentation that triggers this behavior or been able to create one.
Sure would like to!


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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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I saved as html, and this is all it saved. It must be referencing the
actual material from somewhere else, because this html file is only 3k, but
the attachment is close to 1M.
How does it know where to find the 2004 NSM Breakout v2b.htm file? that
might shed some light on this.

=======================
html

head
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
meta name=ProgId content=PowerPoint.Slide
meta name=Generator content="Microsoft PowerPoint 9"
link id=Main-File rel=Main-File href="../2004%20NSM%20Breakout%20v2b.htm"
link rel=Preview href=preview.wmf
titleTitle Here/title
![if !ppt]script src=script.js/scriptscript
!--
var gNavLoaded = gOtlNavLoaded = gOtlLoaded = false;
function Load()
{
str=document.location.hash,idx=str.indexOf('#')
if(idx=0) str=str.substr(1);
if(str) PPTSld.location.replace(str);
}
//--
/script![endif]
/head

frameset rows="*,25" frameborder=0
frameset cols="20%,80%" id=PPTHorizAdjust framespacing=2
frame src=outline.htm name=PPTOtl
frameset rows="100%,*" id=PPTVertAdjust framespacing=2 frameborder=1
onload="Load()"
frame src=slide0001.htm name=PPTSld
frame src=slide0001.htm name=PPTNts
/frameset
/frameset
frameset cols="20%,80%" framespacing=2 frameborder=0
frame src=outline.htm name=PPTOtlNav scrolling=no noresize
frame src=outline.htm name=PPTNav scrolling=no noresize
/frameset
/frameset

/html
=====================

"Echo S" wrote in message
...

I'd probably save the file as HTML and then view it in IE to see if the
source info has any oddball URLs in them.

I'd probably try the same thing with the Outlook email itself. Save as a
TXT file and then see if there's anything in the HTML code which points to
the competitor site. I don't know much about this, but there are 1-pixel
tracking gifs and things like that which may be the source of the problem.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com