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?”
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.
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
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.
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I seem to have acquired this same annoying pop-up as well as many others I see. I’ve gone through solution one, but unfortunately no remedy to this persistant pop-up was obtained. I want to try number two but im not exactly sure how to go about determining the computers name, please help. Thank you.
Turns out this may have to do with something called DATA STREAMS
superuser.com/questions/38476/this-file-came-from-another-computer-how-can-i-unblock-all-the-files-in-a
According to that, USB flash drives use FAT and not NTFS. FAT doesn’t support data streams so moving the files to a flash drive should remove that pop-up. I tried it and it worked.
Still doesn’t stop it from continuing with new downloads.
I tried burning something to a DVD and that TOO seemed to fix the problem. I right-clicked the files on the dvd and they did not have that blocked message.
Thats good enough for me because I want to put files on a DVD and I didn’t want them all to be “corrupted” with that warning. I wanted to find a way to remove that warning before burning to a dvd since on a dvd things are permanent kinda. So far it appears that putting the files on a dvd AUTOMATICALLY removes the “corruption”
This does NOTHING for me.
When dragging files out of a zip folder I get a pop-up:
“This page has an unspecified security flaw.
Would you like to continue”
JUST when DRAGGING zip files.
Right clicking the files > Properties, show “This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer”
I choosing UNBLOCK fixes the problem but JUST for that folder.
I can’t find help for this anywhere.
The solution of checking/unchecking the options in the Security–>Local Intranet–> Sites box or adding computer names in the Security–>Local Intranet–> Sites–>Advanced box does not work in the following cases:
(1) when using an IP address to map drives (for example \\192.168.1.2)
(2) when using a mapped computer name that has periods (for example \\xyz.domain.com).
The pop-up will occur as long as there is a period or a dot in the name that comes after the double-backslash.
Here is how to solve this. This method can also be used if you do not want to add computer names individually but would rather use computer name or IP ranges.
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, click Local intranet, and then click Sites.
3. Click Advanced, and then type: *://192.168.1.1-255.* in the Add this Web site to the zone box
4. Click Add, click OK, click OK, and then click OK again to close the Internet Options dialog box.
Note the format for IP-based name ranges
*://192.168.1.1-255.*
There is a star then a colon and then two forward slashes.
1 is the last octect of the starting IP adrdress in the range
255 is the last octet of the ending address.
So, in my example above, I have added computers mapped from 192.168.1.1 through 192.168.1.255
For domain name ranges that contain a period, use something like: *://*.domain.com
Reference: support.microsoft.com/kb/303650
I tried the first solution, no good for me. second solution do you mean to say computer name sony? getting about 5 or 6 one after the other warnings on all websites including this one… SO annoying pressing yes or no gets rid of them in the end
Great tip, thanks a lot!
thanks solution one worked great for me it was driving me NUTS!!!
Windows is the virus… thanks!
Right on! This never happened before a few months ago, so I was puzzled as to why it would be going through a WEB BROWSER to access a ZIP file. I though perhaps it was an effect left over from a virus that was taken care of. Instead, it must have been AVG or Adaware that decided to change my settings for intranet.
Thanks!
VERY ANNOYING!! You know, I’d like to use my own damn file system without having Internet Explorer decided what I can and cannot do with it.
Thank you SO much for this very useful article, it fixed me right up!!
Hi Raymond,
I\’ve been getting this problem recently with Outlook Express. The problem is, I\’m not getting it with files, I am getting it with emails. The strange thing is though, I only get it with your emails and not with any other.
I\’ve tried both methods above and neither of them work. I have also tried uninstalling and then downloading and reinstalling ie 7.0 but nothing works.
I still only get the error message with your emails and
not with any others. I do also get advertising emails from other companies but no error messages are generated. Again it is only your emails that produce this warning.
I can click either button twice yes or no or both but nothing happens and I\’m still able to read your emails, It\’s just extremely annoying.
Regards,
Nic.
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See ya Later Ray