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Disable "These files might be harmful to your computer" warning?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 2026328036 views
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Problem

I keep getting this irritating warning when copying files over the network: These files might be harmful to your computer Your internet security settings suggest that one or more files may be harmful. Do you want to use it anyway? I am copying a file from (home server) to my local machine which is at . How do I turn off this meaningless "warning"?

Error Output

\\192.168.0.197\c$

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Fix for: Disable "These files might be harmful to your computer" warning?

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I found a fix by changing "internet options" -- so I guess Windows is detecting the "internet" as my own network.. sigh. Click Start / Control Panel / Internet Options Click Security tab. Click Local Intranet Click Sites button. Click Advanced button. Enter the IP Address of the other machine or server (wildcards are allowed) and click Add Click Close, then OK, then OK again. Disconnect, and reconnect the network drive This worked for me, but it's a bummer I have to manually enter IPs here.. it…

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