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

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 \\192.168.0.197\c$ (home server) to my local machine which is at \\192.168.0.4.

How do I turn off this meaningless "warning"?

Answer

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 would be nice if Windows could detect this is a local network file copy and skip the irritating (and pointless) warning about "dangerous" files.

Sidenotes:

• If you are using a DNS name to map the network drive, adding the IP address of the server to the zone will not work. You will need to add the DNS name, and vica-versa.


• When adding an IP address, you can use wildcards like so: 192.168.1.*


• Whan adding a DNS name, you can use wildcards like so: *.example.com