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

[https://superuser.com/questions/149056/disable-these-files-might-be-harmful-to-your-computer-warning](https://superuser.com/questions/149056/disable-these-files-might-be-harmful-to-your-computer-warning)

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

![Changing Internet Options screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lzL2M.png)

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

<div class="votecell post-layout--left" id="bkmrk--1"></div>Using Windows 7, I added my IP address with a wildcard:

```
10.55.25.*

```

Now all the ip's in this range are part of the "Local Intranet".