Any idea how to remove the "Open File - Security Warning" when launching AShell 5.0 on XP (SP3).

That sounds like a flag that the browser has applied to the file properties during the download, as a way of protecting you from accidentally launching a suspicious executable.

Check all of the Properties of ashw32.exe (and the shortcut you launch it from) to see if there isn't some kind of checkbox to turn off. (That sounds a bit vague, but typically the very option disappears from the properties dialog once the flag is cleared, so it's hard to reproduce it.)

I don't get the problem when downloading one of the zip updates and then unzipping the ashw32.exe out of it, nor when running the installer, so I'm not sure what procedure you followed that led to the problem. (Typically I only see that when I download an executable, or CHM file directly.)

I had to reinstall AShell at Client 4250 yesterday as their server went belly up. Every time I clicked the AShell Icon it gave me the security warning and I tried every which way to remove it. When I spoke to them this morning they said - Oh yes it has always done that! Browsing the web it seems to be an issue with XP. It certainly doesn't do it on my Vista machine. I have, as you suggested, looked at the ashw32.exe properties but nothing is there to remove. The certificate is valid etc. As to the Icon shortcut on the desktop - it created a new one and left the original one - clicking either of them still shows the message and both appear to be OK.

I did a straightforward Typical Installation. A mystery but fortunately a problem they don't seem too concerned about.

Good Morning,

This usually happens on new installs at my office when installing ATE on the server. To resolove it, i have the user go into Internet Options (either from IE directly or control panel opens the same dialog) and click on the Security tab / Local Intranet / Sites and make sure the path to your ashw32.exe is listed there.

If this is a "local" installation, Im not sure what your problem would be.

Great

Many thanks Frank - that has solved the problem.

Entry as: file://server1

and now no more messages.

Frank and Colin,

I am having the same problem. With Icon1 the "direct" way I do NOT get the msg. When I use the target line as in ICON 2 I do get the message. It has something to do with the target line in my AShell Icon.

ICON 1 says:

C:\vm\miame\bin\ASHW32.exe -i c:\vm\miame\miame.ini goashl.cmd

ICON 2 says:

\\gg160gb\c\vm\miame\bin\ASHW32.exe -i \\gg160gb\c\vm\miame\miaper.ini goashl.cmd

The name of my computer is "gg160gb" and C: is shared as "C"

I added:
file://gg160gb
as instructed above but now I get a message:

RUN AS
and a dialog box asking what user is to run the current or Administrator.

I'm confused.

Gary

I just installed AShell on a Windows 7 PC and
get the same problem.

Hi Gary,

Curious, it seems you have done everything that i have tried. Perhaps it has something to do with user permission when you installed ashell?

Otherwise, i would have to pass this along to the professor!

There's a Group Policy on Win XP & 7 Professional (this doesn't work from Home) which you can edit to not give this warning.

Run gpedit.msc
User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Attachment Manager.

You can then edit "Inclusion list for low file types" to include .exe.

This isn't ideal, but it has gotten rid of the security message for me in the past.

Hope this helps.

I wish I knew the perfect answer to this, but don't. And for whatever reason, it never happened on any of my XP Pro SP3, Vista Ultimate, or W7 Pro machines. My login has admin rights in all three cases, which might be significant. I checked on my W7 machine and that group policy feature wasn't even enabled, so in theory it is using the default list of high-risk file types built in to Windows. (It doesn't really seem like it can be purely associated with a file type, since that would subject all .exe's to the same treatment. And besides, Gary doesn't get the error unless he uses a sharename to launch it, which makes it seem more like an "Internet" issue.)

Stephen,
You say to:

Run gpedit.msc
User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Attachment Manager.

You can then edit "Inclusion list for low file types" to include .exe.

I am a bit weak here; is gpedit a program to be downloaded from Microslop or where is it? I take it that the User > Admin..>Comp... > Attach.. mgr
are tabs and sub tabs in GPEDIT?

thank you,

Gary

It may be that gpedit.msc was only included in Vista and W7. Here's an article about using the Group Policy Editor under XP (but note: it almost certainly requires XP Pro). Also, for what it's worth, I remain skeptical that the GPE is really the right solution here, but not knowing what the right one is, perhaps it would provide a backdoor solution.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307882

A little searching around turns up this post, which appears to offer a solution by editing a registry entry:

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/24759-open-file-security-warning.html

Here's another one which discusses both the registry fix and Internet Options fix.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/58926-turn-off-open-file-security-warning/

Group Policy Editor comes with the Professional version of Window's OS's

Here's a screen shot


This is Windows 7, but I\'ve used it in XP Pro also.

Wahoo, Yippee, I think I've got it........

In IE, for once HELP worked. I wonder if after
I reboot the system that it will revert. But,
in the meantime here are the steps and what I
did. The Help screen:

---------- snip -------------

............
intranet sites and many webpages can be accessed by typing a common name (for example, http://benefits). If intranet security is enabled, Internet Explorer will recognize the difference between the addresses and use the appropriate security zone settings.

Do I need to set anything in Internet Explorer to have intranet security?

........snip............
If Internet Explorer recognizes that you are on an intranet, you do not need to do anything else. If it does not recognize that you're on an intranet, follow these steps to tell Internet Explorer that you are on one:


In Internet Explorer,
click Tools,
click Internet Options
click the Security tab
click Local intranet
click the Sites button

In the Local intranet dialog box, clear the Automatically detect intranet network check box, if it is selected.

------- HERE IS THE KEY CHECK ALL THREE BOXES ---
Select all other check boxes.......

--------- I had to leave the standard MS
message about talking to your local Net Admin.
That is their way out when they don't know what
else to tell us in "HELP" docs...... ggggrrrrrhhhh.
--------------------

To learn how to connect to your company's intranet, you'll need to talk to your network administrator

========================

The notes above reference this but do not say
check the other boxes. I haven't gone through
the combinations of the three check boxes to see which one is the one that actually kicks the message off.

saludos y sincerely

Gary Guilbert
Deep in the Heart of Texas
*********** time for a cold one **********

PS,

Regarding the group policy editor. I looked at it
on the user's system and it seemed to only want
"file types" i.e. So I was "big chicken" about
putting in ".EXE" as a file type for ashw32.exe.

I may go back and select ADVANCED to try to enter the server on the list and see if I can get that to work. That makes more sense (most safe) that I should be able to just say on my intranet is a name of //bigkahuna
(Jack's standard name for a network server).

Gary

testing reply function ty 8/5/19

testing again 8/6/19

still testing