Tonight, I’ve started receiving security warnings whenever I try to open a website in Favorites via the Start menu. I don’t get any warnings if I open the same websites in Favorites via Internet Explorer 11. Tonight is the first time I’ve received such warnings. Has anyone else received such warnings? The only explanation that I can come up with is the Windows Updates which occurred last night. I should say that I’m still using Windows 7.

KJW said:

Tonight, I’ve started receiving security warnings whenever I try to open a website in Favorites via the Start menu. I don’t get any warnings if I open the same websites in Favorites via Internet Explorer 11. Tonight is the first time I’ve received such warnings. Has anyone else received such warnings? The only explanation that I can come up with is the Windows Updates which occurred last night. I should say that I’m still using Windows 7.

Probably a new security update. You can probably turn them off.

roughbarked said:

KJW said:

Tonight, I’ve started receiving security warnings whenever I try to open a website in Favorites via the Start menu. I don’t get any warnings if I open the same websites in Favorites via Internet Explorer 11. Tonight is the first time I’ve received such warnings. Has anyone else received such warnings? The only explanation that I can come up with is the Windows Updates which occurred last night. I should say that I’m still using Windows 7.

Probably a new security update. You can probably turn them off.

Come to think of it, Mozilla made it so that their browser recognised the sites you tend to trust and turned the warnings off on those sites.

Last night’s Windows update killed my sound. I found out that the default had been changed from speakers to headphones.

Speedy said:

Last night’s Windows update killed my sound. I found out that the default had been changed from speakers to headphones.

I just checked my sound and it seems to be ok (for how I use it).

KJW said:

Speedy said:

Last night’s Windows update killed my sound. I found out that the default had been changed from speakers to headphones.

I just checked my sound and it seems to be ok (for how I use it).

Hehe. I checked earlier whether I have the same problem as you, but it is working fine.

Have you tried googling what this problem is? I usually find a solution to most computer issues this way.

Speedy said:

Have you tried googling what this problem is? I usually find a solution to most computer issues this way.

I’m not even sure what search term I should use.

KJW said:

Speedy said:

Have you tried googling what this problem is? I usually find a solution to most computer issues this way.

I’m not even sure what search term I should use.

What messages come up with these warnings?

have you checked the certificates for that page? they may not be current. though i have no idea how to resolve that issue.

This is very recent.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/a-warning-popup-when-opening-any-url-file-in/8142f4b7-6678-4670-a59b-f01b89860dac?auth=1

ChrispenEvan said:

have you checked the certificates for that page? they may not be current. though i have no idea how to resolve that issue.

The actual page is irrelevant as it happens to all links in the Favorites folder, but only if accessed from the Start menu, not my browser (IE11).

roughbarked said:

What messages come up with these warnings?

The title of the dialogue box is “File Download – Security Warning”.
The message says “Do you want to open this file?”

Name: Holiday Forum_url
Type: Unknown File Type
From: C:\Users\User\Favorites

On the bottom is the usual message about how files from the internet can be harmful, etc.

By clicking “Open”, the website opens, but doesn’t stop the message from reoccurring for that website.

Check that link I posted KJW. There is a suggested ffix for Windows 7.

Speedy said:

This is very recent.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/a-warning-popup-when-opening-any-url-file-in/8142f4b7-6678-4670-a59b-f01b89860dac?auth=1

Thank you. It does look like the solution, although I’m a bit wary of using a command (ICACLS) that I don’t understand.

KJW said:

I’m a bit wary of using a command (ICACLS) that I don’t understand.

I looked up the help for that command and it seems like the type of command one should be very careful with.

KJW said:

Speedy said:

This is very recent.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/a-warning-popup-when-opening-any-url-file-in/8142f4b7-6678-4670-a59b-f01b89860dac?auth=1

Thank you. It does look like the solution, although I’m a bit wary of using a command (ICACLS) that I don’t understand.

Matthew sounds like a nice bloke. What’s the worst thing that can happen? ;)

Speedy said:

What’s the worst thing that can happen? ;)

A while back I took my computer to the tech guy to get fixed. When it returned, various updates such as Java would persistently fail to install. It turned out the guy had left my User Account Control off, and running in Standard mode, it didn’t have the necessary privileges to install. With the UAC off, instead of asking for my administrator password, it would simply be denied access.

KJW said:

roughbarked said:

What messages come up with these warnings?

The title of the dialogue box is “File Download – Security Warning”.
The message says “Do you want to open this file?”

Name: Holiday Forum_url
Type: Unknown File Type
From: C:\Users\User\Favorites

On the bottom is the usual message about how files from the internet can be harmful, etc.

By clicking “Open”, the website opens, but doesn’t stop the message from reoccurring for that website.

Yeah well you either click yes or no and the browser remembers your intelligent choice.

The updates almost always mess up something here. We lost iView stuff with one. We usually lose the networking within the house. The latest one stopped the printer listening to the main computer, although the networked one in the other room could still print. Nerd friend has to come and reset stuff pretty much every time for us. My work computer, which is rarely used online except to check you lot or the ABC news has updates turned off. Nerd Friend has the black box at his place for a sleepover periodically and he does the updates overnight and makes sure they haven’t messed up my ability to write and print letters before he sends it home to me.

:)

buffy said:

The updates almost always mess up something here. We lost iView stuff with one. We usually lose the networking within the house. The latest one stopped the printer listening to the main computer, although the networked one in the other room could still print. Nerd friend has to come and reset stuff pretty much every time for us. My work computer, which is rarely used online except to check you lot or the ABC news has updates turned off. Nerd Friend has the black box at his place for a sleepover periodically and he does the updates overnight and makes sure they haven’t messed up my ability to write and print letters before he sends it home to me.

:)

Anyway. That’s one thing I’ve noticed over the years. No apple user ever complains about an update screwing things up. Yet it is common parlance amongst the vast majority of those who sneer at apple users.

No worries.. Seamless updates must be boring to the majority.

never had a problem with updates. i would imagine most problems are due to people not looking at the updates available and choosing the ones that are applicable to their system. using alternative programs that aren’t reliant on microsoft updates is probably a bonus too.

ChrispenEvan said:

never had a problem with updates. i would imagine most problems are due to people not looking at the updates available and choosing the ones that are applicable to their system. using alternative programs that aren’t reliant on microsoft updates is probably a bonus too.

Yes. This mostly the case.

People still use IE??

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had a problem with updates. i would imagine most problems are due to people not looking at the updates available and choosing the ones that are applicable to their system. using alternative programs that aren’t reliant on microsoft updates is probably a bonus too.

Yes. This mostly the case.

so it isn’t about whether it is mac or windows so much as the user then?

Divine Angel said:

People still use IE??

i know… been using opera for years now. tried others but opera works well.

ChrispenEvan said:

roughbarked said:

ChrispenEvan said:

never had a problem with updates. i would imagine most problems are due to people not looking at the updates available and choosing the ones that are applicable to their system. using alternative programs that aren’t reliant on microsoft updates is probably a bonus too.

Yes. This mostly the case.

so it isn’t about whether it is mac or windows so much as the user then?

I think apple makes the messages more easily comprehended perhaps?

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

People still use IE??

i know… been using opera for years now. tried others but opera works well.

For a short time apple users were forced to use IE. It is truthfully a bag of rotting tripe.

I have to use IE at work for any website hosted on the company’s server. I don’t know why they won’t open in anything else.

Divine Angel said:

I have to use IE at work for any website hosted on the company’s server. I don’t know why they won’t open in anything else.

Because they were only built for IE.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

I have to use IE at work for any website hosted on the company’s server. I don’t know why they won’t open in anything else.

Because they were only built for IE.

The ATO’s Business Portal requires the use of IE, so perhaps it’s due to security.

It’s the only thing I use IE for.

KJW, have you sorted this yet?

There are new posts on the Microsoft thread now.

Speedy said:

The ATO’s Business Portal requires the use of IE

That’s insane.

Speedy said:

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

I have to use IE at work for any website hosted on the company’s server. I don’t know why they won’t open in anything else.

Because they were only built for IE.

The ATO’s Business Portal requires the use of IE, so perhaps it’s due to security.

It’s the only thing I use IE for.

Weird because its security is not good.

roughbarked said:

Speedy said:

roughbarked said:

Because they were only built for IE.

The ATO’s Business Portal requires the use of IE, so perhaps it’s due to security.

It’s the only thing I use IE for.

Weird because its security is not good.

That is the reason I uninstalled it.

Speedy said:

KJW, have you sorted this yet?

There are new posts on the Microsoft thread now.

I haven’t really explored the issue since last night. However, I did just discover that attempting to open a link in the Favorites folder by right-clicking on it also produces the security warning.

KJW said:

Speedy said:

KJW, have you sorted this yet?

There are new posts on the Microsoft thread now.

I haven’t really explored the issue since last night. However, I did just discover that attempting to open a link in the Favorites folder by right-clicking on it also produces the security warning.

But doing the same for links in another folder does not produce the warning.

What is the actual warning? Is it a permission issue?

furious said:

What is the actual warning? Is it a permission issue?

From an earlier post:

KJW said:

The title of the dialogue box is “File Download – Security Warning”.
The message says “Do you want to open this file?”

Name: Holiday Forum_url
Type: Unknown File Type
From: C:\Users\User\Favorites

On the bottom is the usual message about how files from the internet can be harmful, etc.

By clicking “Open”, the website opens, but doesn’t stop the message from reoccurring for that website.

KJW said:

Speedy said:

This is very recent.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/a-warning-popup-when-opening-any-url-file-in/8142f4b7-6678-4670-a59b-f01b89860dac?auth=1

Thank you. It does look like the solution, although I’m a bit wary of using a command (ICACLS) that I don’t understand.

Although I do think this might be the solution, I still haven’t tried it because I was hoping Microsoft would fix the problem with another update. But so far, that hasn’t happened yet.