NIS2013 Anti-Spam COM Add-In no longer compatible with Office2010/Outlook after SP2 update

Heads Up!

 

Tuesday’s (7-23-13) release by Microsoft (via Windows’s Update) of the Office 2010 "SP2 Update" has caused issues with the Norton Anti-Spam COM Add-In for Outlook.  After the SP2 update is applied, every time Outlook is started, a new folder is automatically created with the same name:

 

"the file so that changes to the file will be reflected in your item #." (where # will be an incrementing number for each new folder created on each subsequent Outlook startup/invocation.)

 

These "ghost folders" only seem to occur in any additional data files Outlook has opened - i.e. Any extra “.OST” and/or “.PST” datafile such as “Archive.PST”, but not in the default mail delivery datafile structure(s) 

 

FWIW; I found that going into Outlook options and un-checking the Norton Anti-Spam COM Add-In fixes the problem.  After disabling the Add-in and closing/re-opening Outlook, the "ghost folders" can be deleted by right-clicking and selecting "Delete" from the context menu. 

 

Kind Regards,

John

 

EDIT - Further clarification on symptom & work-around remedy.