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29 Mar 2011, 9:18 pm

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IE will add an Alternate Data Stream to files downloaded from Internet and if that stream is present, you'll be warned when opening the file.

If you want to disable this feature..

This doesn't involve IE, or files transferred over the internet.


As strange as it may seem, Windows Explorer use the IE registry key to determine this behavior.



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29 Mar 2011, 9:21 pm

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By the way Asmodeus, you really should have your USB drives formatted to fat32. As far as I know NTFS's journaling and write scheme are pretty hard on flash memory.

Can't copy larger files without it.

If you don't need to access the files outside of Windows, you can also try exFAT.



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29 Mar 2011, 9:26 pm

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I switched user agent type in firefox to IE 8, the warning is gone and the article is does not seem to change.
Ooh yeah, so it does (or doesn't, rather).
:roll: Honestly, what a crock...
Wonder how long it took for someone at MS to come up with that pointless little gem? :lol:


Even more hysterical is that they attempt to read the operating system based on what the browser says it is.


Fuzzy, r u using linux? Maybe the fake user agent also change the OS part to Windows?



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30 Mar 2011, 3:21 am

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That's not related to password. It's a feature M$ added sometime in XP's life. IE will add an Alternate Data Stream to files downloaded from Internet and if that stream is present, you'll be warned when opening the file.

If you want to disable this feature, first add/change this registry key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]
"Flags"=dword:00000047

Then go to
Internet Options → Security
select My Computer
click Custom level...
change Miscellaneous → Launching applications and unsafe files = Disable

Be aware that it'll disable the warning for all files. So if you click on a trojan, there'll be no second chance.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0
double clicked on flags, entered hexidecimal value -> 00000047
did the rest
restarted.
Nothing happened, still getting "this file came from another computer and may be blocked to help protect this computer" in the properties when I copy files to the usb stick.



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30 Mar 2011, 4:54 am

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Then go to
Internet Options → Security
select My Computer
click Custom level...
change Miscellaneous → Launching applications and unsafe files = Disable

Be aware that it'll disable the warning for all files. So if you click on a trojan, there'll be no second chance.



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30 Mar 2011, 6:57 am

CloudWalker wrote:
Fuzzy, r u using linux? Maybe the fake user agent also change the OS part to Windows?
There can be details of the OS in the user agent strings, but since they could contain any random nonsense it's no indication of the actual OS.
Fake User Agent provides 'accurate' user agent strings for a range of real browsers, but these can be added or edited freely.


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30 Mar 2011, 7:52 am

Asmodeus wrote:
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By the way Asmodeus, you really should have your USB drives formatted to fat32. As far as I know NTFS's journaling and write scheme are pretty hard on flash memory.

Can't copy larger files without it.


There's software available on the Internet that can help you with having FAT32 accept a larger size. Let me know if you want the name so that I go and search for it.



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30 Mar 2011, 6:09 pm

Asmodeus wrote:
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By the way Asmodeus, you really should have your USB drives formatted to fat32. As far as I know NTFS's journaling and write scheme are pretty hard on flash memory.

Can't copy larger files without it.


How big are the files? fat32 will handle 1 byte shy of 4 gigs. And it will address up to 2 TB in space.


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31 Mar 2011, 7:24 am

CloudWalker wrote:
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Then go to
Internet Options → Security
select My Computer
click Custom level...
change Miscellaneous → Launching applications and unsafe files = Disable

Be aware that it'll disable the warning for all files. So if you click on a trojan, there'll be no second chance.


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did the rest

It didn't work. I still can't access the files when using my 7 partition, and each time I copy files to a usb stick it applies this block.



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01 Apr 2011, 12:52 am

r u sure you follow through exactly? Like selecting the "My Computer" zone in the 3rd line? Just in case I missed sometime I just tested it and it works except for a typo:

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change Miscellaneous → Launching applications and unsafe files = Disable

should be "Enable (not secure)"

If Windows still prompt you, download this program: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/alternatestreamview.zip
Use it to open a file on your USB (it's called scan in the program) and tell us what ADS the file have.



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02 Apr 2011, 5:48 pm

CloudWalker wrote:
r u sure you follow through exactly? Like selecting the "My Computer" zone in the 3rd line? Just in case I missed sometime I just tested it and it works except for a typo:
CloudWalker wrote:
change Miscellaneous → Launching applications and unsafe files = Disable

should be "Enable (not secure)"

If Windows still prompt you, download this program: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/alternatestreamview.zip
Use it to open a file on your USB (it's called scan in the program) and tell us what ADS the file have.

It's fixed! Thank you! :)



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03 Apr 2011, 12:06 am

Glad to help. If you still use IE, you, may want to check if you have accidentally changed the settings for other zones. Because if you follow my original post and set it to disable, you'll have disabled running files for that zone. :oops: