AOL in Outlook 2003

I suddenly noticed strange (well, stranger than normal) behavior in Outlook 
2003.  When I first go to read mail, I get a pop up warning about a 
dangerous ActiveX.

Now, I see on most mail messages an AOL icon that indicates the staus the 
person sending the mail message.  I suspect this was a side-effect of 
upgrading Quicktime (which installed iTunes by default).  However, I 
implicitly said DO NOT INSTALL any AOL crap.

Sigh...

Another thing I noticed -- my Java environment has been corrupted by iTunes.

Any ideas of what to do (besides uninstalling iTunes and QuickTime)?

TIA!