Guest Rich Pasco Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 I'm running Windows XP. Within the last week, every time I double-click on a JPG image file in Windows Explorer (or type its name on the command line), I get: Open File - Security Warning Do you want to open this file? ... [Open] [Cancel] [x] Always ask before opening this file While files from the Internet can be useful, this file type can potentially harm your computer.... I can un-check the "Always ask" box, and then it doesn't prompt me any more for that particular image, but it still prompts for other JPG images. Can anyone explain why I am suddenly getting this prompt? Could it be that recently I installed Firefox 3.0? How can I disable this prompt for *all* JPEG images, regardless of how I acquire them? - Rich
Guest Rich Pasco Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Re: Open File - Security Warning Rich Pasco wrote: > I'm running Windows XP. > > Within the last week, every time I double-click on a JPG image file in > Windows Explorer (or type its name on the command line), I get: > > Open File - Security Warning > Do you want to open this file? > ... [Open] [Cancel] > [x] Always ask before opening this file > While files from the Internet can be useful, this file type can > potentially harm your computer.... > > I can un-check the "Always ask" box, and then it doesn't prompt me any > more for that particular image, but it still prompts for other JPG images. > > Can anyone explain why I am suddenly getting this prompt? > > Could it be that recently I installed Firefox 3.0? > > How can I disable this prompt for *all* JPEG images, regardless of how > I acquire them? If I right-click on a newly-downloaded image and choose Properties, At the bottom of the General tab it says: Security: This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer. [unblock] It only says this for images downloaded with Firefox 3.0.1, not images I had previously downloaded with 2.0.16. Clicking [unblock] has the same effect as un-checking "Always ask": it only affects that one file. Apparently XP maintains a "blocked" flag in the file properties. This is news to me. I want to make all JPG images automatically unblocked. This could be by either (a) fixing Firefox to store images without the "blocked" flag, or (b) fixing Windows to ignore it. Suggestions? - Rich
Guest Rich Pasco Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 Re: Open File - Security Warning Rich Pasco wrote: > Rich Pasco wrote: > >> I'm running Windows XP. >> >> Within the last week, every time I double-click on a JPG image file in >> Windows Explorer (or type its name on the command line), I get: >> >> Open File - Security Warning >> Do you want to open this file? >> ... [Open] [Cancel] >> [x] Always ask before opening this file >> While files from the Internet can be useful, this file type can >> potentially harm your computer.... >> >> I can un-check the "Always ask" box, and then it doesn't prompt me any >> more for that particular image, but it still prompts for other JPG images. >> >> Can anyone explain why I am suddenly getting this prompt? >> >> Could it be that recently I installed Firefox 3.0? >> >> How can I disable this prompt for *all* JPEG images, regardless of how >> I acquire them? > > If I right-click on a newly-downloaded image and choose Properties, > At the bottom of the General tab it says: > > Security: This file came from another computer and might be blocked > to help protect this computer. [unblock] > > It only says this for images downloaded with Firefox 3.0.1, not images > I had previously downloaded with 2.0.16. Clicking [unblock] has the > same effect as un-checking "Always ask": it only affects that one file. > > Apparently XP maintains a "blocked" flag in the file properties. This > is news to me. I want to make all JPG images automatically unblocked. > This could be by either (a) fixing Firefox to store images without the > "blocked" flag, or (b) fixing Windows to ignore it. > > Suggestions? > > - Rich I found some useful information at Experts Exchange: for XP Pro: 1. Click Start, Run and type GPEDIT.MSC 2. Navigate to: User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Attachment Manager 3. Double-click "Do not preserve zone information in file attachments" 4. Set it to "Enabled" Source: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21706402.html#a15765515 Unfortunately, this only prevents newly-downloaded files from being flagged as suspicious. It does not stop Windows from warning me about files which were already downloaded and flagged. Also the aforementioned control affects all files equally, when I wanted to handle JPG files specially. - Rich
Guest ju.c Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Re: Open File - Security Warning You are a your own Self Help Guru! I wonder, what if you E-mail the pictures to yourself. Will that remove the warning? ju.c "Rich Pasco" <richp1234@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uRTs0FNCJHA.4316@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Rich Pasco wrote: >> Rich Pasco wrote: >> >>> I'm running Windows XP. >>> >>> Within the last week, every time I double-click on a JPG image file in >>> Windows Explorer (or type its name on the command line), I get: >>> >>> Open File - Security Warning >>> Do you want to open this file? >>> ... [Open] [Cancel] >>> [x] Always ask before opening this file >>> While files from the Internet can be useful, this file type can >>> potentially harm your computer.... >>> >>> I can un-check the "Always ask" box, and then it doesn't prompt me any >>> more for that particular image, but it still prompts for other JPG images. >>> >>> Can anyone explain why I am suddenly getting this prompt? >>> >>> Could it be that recently I installed Firefox 3.0? >>> >>> How can I disable this prompt for *all* JPEG images, regardless of how >>> I acquire them? >> >> If I right-click on a newly-downloaded image and choose Properties, >> At the bottom of the General tab it says: >> >> Security: This file came from another computer and might be blocked >> to help protect this computer. [unblock] >> >> It only says this for images downloaded with Firefox 3.0.1, not images >> I had previously downloaded with 2.0.16. Clicking [unblock] has the >> same effect as un-checking "Always ask": it only affects that one file. >> >> Apparently XP maintains a "blocked" flag in the file properties. This >> is news to me. I want to make all JPG images automatically unblocked. >> This could be by either (a) fixing Firefox to store images without the >> "blocked" flag, or (b) fixing Windows to ignore it. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> - Rich > > I found some useful information at Experts Exchange: > > for XP Pro: > > 1. Click Start, Run and type GPEDIT.MSC > 2. Navigate to: User Configuration | Administrative Templates > | Windows Components | Attachment Manager > 3. Double-click "Do not preserve zone information in file > attachments" > 4. Set it to "Enabled" > > Source: > http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21706402.html#a15765515 > > Unfortunately, this only prevents newly-downloaded files from being > flagged as suspicious. It does not stop Windows from warning me > about files which were already downloaded and flagged. > > Also the aforementioned control affects all files equally, when I > wanted to handle JPG files specially. > > - Rich
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