Problems attaching PDF's to Outlook 2003 emails

Hi,
An issue is starting to develop in our offices where .pdf files don't attach to an email from the Windows XP explorer context menu when Outlook is open. The attachments attach nicely to a new message if outlook is not running at the time. Even with Outlook running they can attach .pdf's if the user copies the file from explorer and pastes it in the new email. Nothing of the above applies to any filetype other than .pdf's.
Regards
Mike
update:
All our computers have recently had Avecto Privilege Guard Client pushed out to them via group policy.
update:
Ok, I think I just answered my own question. I uninstalled the Avecto Privilege Guard Client and everything was again working just fine. I can only presume that the Avecto Client is blocking pdfshell.dll from making calls to Outlook.

No, the pdfs are market sheets, specification sheets, etc. I open them in the google drive, send to/open in adobe and email. Typically they attach just fine, but the new files that my company added to the shared google drive won't attach to an email as an attachment. The entire pdf shows up on the email. If I send the email a little red box shows up in the body of the email. Does this make sense? I appreciate the assistance.
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