Comments on: This page has an unspecified potential security risk.

By: Ben Papworth

Ben Papworth — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:25:20 +0000

Just so that any users of Parallels on the Mac get this problem when opening ‘My Documents’, try following this advice, adding ‘\\.psf’ as a ‘Local Intranet’ site.

Ignore the warning about this location being in the ‘Trusted Sites’ already (perhaps this is a bug in where Parallels setups up the default security settings, or due to the default security level).

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:21:34 +0000

Despite the senseless “use Macs” comment (as Macs are just as ridiculous with other issues), ThePopp does make a good point about Windows only letting other people do nefarious things:

I ran into this problem with right-clicking on .zip files on a remote share. I had no problem right-clicking on .exe files, however. Apparently .zip files are dangerous but .exe files are A-OK! So anyway, I changed the intranet settings to enable right clicking. Unfortunately, I still could not copy the file to my local directory (UAC “Try Again”). Other files could be copied, but not .zip. Instead, I had to walk over to the remote XP box and copy the file TO the Vista computer over the network.

In short: Windows wouldn’t let ME copy a file TO MY computer, but it was perfectly fine with letting the REMOTE computer send the “potential security risk” TO the same box. Ludicrous!

*head explodes*

By: ThePopp

ThePopp — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:10:19 +0000

I hardly ever post to any boards, but this problem is an example of the stupidity that is Microsoft and how, despite Microsoft people help each other to resolve issues.
To me, it seems that the only people Microsoft can keep from doing something nefarious on your computer is you. Of course, that does depend on using the definition of nefarious as “something I need to do!”
Ironically, every time I see the message “This page has an unspecified potential security risk.” I think to myself, “Duh! It’s running Windows, of course it does. It is!”
Remind me again why we don’t all use Macs?

By: freakwent

freakwent — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:19:32 +0000

not as though it’s hard to click OK, but still more vista lameness from MS.

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:54:53 +0000

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!!!

By: John Plummer

John Plummer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:50:01 +0000

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.

By: poop

poop — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:40:43 +0000

I cant get it to work- whats a server??

By: Jadawin

Jadawin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:27:49 +0000

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.

By: Noob

Noob — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:36:48 +0000

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.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:13:42 +0000

Nice fix, worked like a champ. U-Rock grad?

-Harry