This weird behavior happened right after I’ve reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP. I’ve only updated Windows and did not install any third party software. Whenever I try to access or even right click a ZIP file on a network share, I got an annoying error message “This page has an unspecified potential security risk. Would you like to continue?”

This page has an unspecified potential security risk. Would you like to continue?

It’s no big deal because clicking Yes button would allow me to access the ZIP file. However, this is not normal because I do not have this problem last time and I also don’t want to be clicking the YES button every time I access a ZIP file on a network share.

Apparently a mapped network share is considered a web page. It appears that Internet Explorer thinks that your network share is in the Internet Zone rather than the Intranet Zone!

There is 2 simple solution to remove this annoying error message.

First solution:
1. Go to Control Panel > Internet Options
2. Select Security tab
3. Select Local intranet and click Sites button
4. UNCHECK Automatically detect intranet network and CHECK all 3 options below.
This page has an unspecified potential security risk

Second solution:
1. Go to Control Panel > Internet Options
2. Select Security tab
3. Select Local intranet and click Sites button
4. Click Advanced button
5. Enter the computer name such as \\PC and click Add button
Network Share Unspecified Potential Security Risk fix

Either method above will work. This can happen on both any version of Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 2003) once you’ve Internet Explorer 7 installed.

[tags]security, share, zip, windows, intranet, internet explorer[/tags]