This page has an unspecified potential security risk.
With Vista (and probably XP and IE7) right clicking on a zip file on a network share brings up an Internet Explorer dialogue:
This page has an unspecified potential security risk. Would you like to continue?
It appears that the OS thinks that your network share is in the Internet Zone rather than the Intranet Zone. This is easily fixed by:
- Control Panel > Internet Options > Security.
- Select Local intranet > click Sites > Advanced.
- Type your server name into the textbox (e.g. If the server is called FileServer just type FileServer) and click Add.
- Click Close > OK > OK.
September 26th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Thanks, that worked a treat.
I’m on Vista Ultimate. I’d browsed to a folder on my other XP machine and was simply right clicking on a ZIP file there and then got this unspecified potential security risk message from Internet Explorer! Weird!!
Cheers,
Barry.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Thanks John. You made my morning!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I’m using XP and had this problem browsing another XP machine on my network. Helpful information.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Thanks for the tip.
Once again Microsoft fails to get even the most basic fundamentals to work properly.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I’ve got this exact issue. I’ve added our file server everywhere in the security settings, tried naming it every which way, but the machine flatly refuses to open anything without moaning about it. The start menu, my docs, app data etc are all redirected back to a central location, and guess what, the ‘my docs’ folder, desktop shortcuts, quick launch etc are all ‘potential security risks’…. it’s driving me mad! I had this before and got rid of it, but this time it just won’t go away!
Help!!!!
February 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I had some reservations as I was using a drive letter mapped to the server and thus wasn’t sure if this would work, but this worked perfectly. Many thanks.
F_T
June 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I use DFS and i had to put my NTDS domain in to access net drives correctly as I use redirection of all shares.
ie
\\bubba.local\data\billybob
might map to \\fileserver\billybob and \\fileserver2\billybob
but I had to put bubba.local in the server name referenced in original post.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:43 am
Thanks John.
This sorted out my problem. I was panicking for a minute or two. I thought I might have got a virus infection on my NAS server!
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
I’m stupid…how do I find out what my server name is?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
The path to the share will be something like \\servername\folder. In this case servername is what you need to enter.
If you have mapped the share to a drive letter the drive will probably be called something like
folder (\\servername)(X:)
August 29th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
This won’t work for me. I’ve got Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion on Mac OSX, and it has a path of “\\.host\username\” to access my home directory in OS X. But the security preferences is refusing to let me add that because of the dot in the name. Also, it’s not dependent on IE7, as I still only had IE6 running in that virtual machine. There must have been some other security update that made the change. If I knew which one it was, I’d just uninstall that particular update.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I typed in the drive letter as the server name and it converted it to file://*.servername.domain
September 25th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Here’s a simpler solution. In Control Panel, go to Internet Options> Security> Custom Level> Miscellaneous. There’s an entry titled “Launching Applications and Unsafe Files (not secure)”. Set it to “enable”.
Worked for me!
November 24th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
oh god you rock.. thank you
December 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Nice fix, worked like a champ. U-Rock grad?
-Harry
December 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Yep that stops that annoying message popping up when clicking in windows explorer MS windows network and going to other pc’s in my house with public folder sharing to get files.I just enter the other computer names and it dont pop it up no more.
Thanks.
March 1st, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Something was changed that would allow websites to be ‘marked’ by IP address; I have 192.168.*.* in my zone, and that USED to work.
I have letter-mapped drives, so heading to My Computer and putting in the name that appears in the ()s before the drive, works like a charm! Thanks for the info, and thanks for being so high on the search engine.
April 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I cant get it to work- whats a server??
April 6th, 2009 at 8:50 am
In this case the server is just the computer where the files are stored. I do think that a minimum amount of technical knowledge should be required before changing windows security options though.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I get this error message when i sign out of yahoo messenger…plz help me. is this some kind of a virus or a phishing software??? i havent got this message until a few days ago.
Plz help folks!!!