Resolved MS Office Word 2003 and Outlook 2003

I have been running MS Office Word 2003 with Outlook 2003 on my Win Vista system for years with no problem. Recently when I started Outlook 2003 and hit "new email" a message came up regarding "MS Office Word" is no longer present or faulted, etc." I ran the "detect and repair" several times but the issue still persists. In Outlook I had MS Office Word 2003 set as my email editor but since the error every time I check that box and start a new email the error comes up. Upon checking to see if MS Office Word 2003 is still set as the email editor, the box becomes unchecked.

Since Detect and Repair doesn't fix the problem, if I use the MS Office CD, would it let me install ONLY MS Office Word (and may Outlook) without messing up the other programs included in the suite which are running just fine?

P.S. I can still use MS Outlook but NOT with MS Office Word 2003 set as the email editor and I’ve done it this way for years. A complete reinstall would be my last resort.

 

Before you do anything else I would visit our Malware and Virus forum. This sudden change in behaviour could be an infection.

 

Malewarebytes results

I downloaded and ran Malwarebytes. It found the following object:
Registry Keys Infected:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{1D4DB7D2-6EC9-47A3-BD87-1E41684E07BB} (Adware.MyWebSearch) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

The following link is what malewarebytes says about the infected object:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/malwarenet.php?name=Adware.MyWebSearch

 

Thinking about upgrading MS Outlook...

I was thinking about upgrading MS Outlook to the 2010 version. Since I already have MS Office 2003 installed and Outlook 2003 is automatically installed with that version, I was wondering if I could get Outlook 2010 and install that over the 2003 version? Anyone know if I can do the with no problems?

 

I can't see any problem with the upgrade to a newer version, but this is going off topic.

Has the error gone now?

You would be well advised to go to our Malware and Virus forum, you've found one infection, there may be more and no AV software is 100% accurate. What one AV program finds another will miss. There are several scanning programs used in the forum to make quite sure your PC is clean. Here is the link.

http://www.windowsbbs.com/malware-virus-removal/announcements.html

 

The problem was a software installation for a Label Printer. Everthing is working fine as it was before. Thanks for all the input.