IE6 browser prompt: Do you wish to move or copy files from this zone?

[Al Christoph]

The subject prompt (Do you wish to move or copy files from this zone?) has
appeared as of the February security update. Questions:

1) How do you turn this off?
2) Whose bright idea was it to turn it on?
3) Where do I send a note to let him know what I think of his
parentage?-))))

This has happened on all PC's that I have tested it on.
Trying the things suggested when I googled, made no difference and does not
seem relevant. (The zone setting of 1802 was 0 for all except the restricted
zone.)
A quick overview of zone security options did not pop up anything obvious.

This kind of drastic change in monthly updates is NOT appreciated. And we
won't even discuss what the reboot from the Feb update did to my email. My
email provider is still trying to figure out how to get my mail box
unclogged. (26 or 57 MB of mail backed up depending on where they look.)

Needless, to say I'm no longer running the autoinstall feature of windows
update on that PC.

Regards,
Al

 

[PA Bear]

Recent critical security updates have restricted Drag and Drop and
Copy/Paste (among others) between IE security zones.

See IE Tools>Internet Options>Security>[zone]>Custom>Miscellaneous>...

 

[Al Christoph]

Thanks for the response.

In checking the zones as you have suggested I see that
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
is set to enable for all zones as it always has been. There are also prompt
and disable options.

It appears that MS now treats enable as prompt. Is this correct? If so this
is a ridiculous and very annoying change!

Or am I missing another setting.

Is doco'd in a KB article? A quick search did not turn up anything.

Regards,
Al
who sometimes poses as Papa Bear at http://3bears.biz

Recent critical security updates have restricted Drag and Drop and
Copy/Paste (among others) between IE security zones.

See IE Tools>Internet Options>Security>[zone]>Custom>Miscellaneous>...
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

The subject prompt (Do you wish to move or copy files from this zone?)
has
appeared as of the February security update. Questions:

1) How do you turn this off?
2) Whose bright idea was it to turn it on?
3) Where do I send a note to let him know what I think of his
parentage?-))))

This has happened on all PC's that I have tested it on.
Trying the things suggested when I googled, made no difference and does
not seem relevant. (The zone setting of 1802 was 0 for all except the
restricted zone.)
A quick overview of zone security options did not pop up anything
obvious.

This kind of drastic change in monthly updates is NOT appreciated. And we
won't even discuss what the reboot from the Feb update did to my email.
My
email provider is still trying to figure out how to get my mail box
unclogged. (26 or 57 MB of mail backed up depending on where they look.)

Needless, to say I'm no longer running the autoinstall feature of windows
update on that PC.

Regards,
Al

 

[PA Bear]

[<whispers> Look at the very last entry in Miscellaneous, Al. You must deal
with this setting in each Zone.]

Be careful! There are Bad Guys out there that will take advantage of the
exposed vulnerabilities in this less-than-secure setting. This change was
done for your Protection. I would only enable it when absolutely necessary
and on a per-case basis.
--
~PA (as in Pennsylvania) Bear

Thanks for the response.

In checking the zones as you have suggested I see that
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
is set to enable for all zones as it always has been. There are also
prompt and disable options.

It appears that MS now treats enable as prompt. Is this correct? If so
this is a ridiculous and very annoying change!

Or am I missing another setting.

Is doco'd in a KB article? A quick search did not turn up anything.

Regards,
Al
who sometimes poses as Papa Bear at http://3bears.biz

Recent critical security updates have restricted Drag and Drop and
Copy/Paste (among others) between IE security zones.

See IE Tools>Internet Options>Security>[zone]>Custom>Miscellaneous>...
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

The subject prompt (Do you wish to move or copy files from this zone?)
has
appeared as of the February security update. Questions:

1) How do you turn this off?
2) Whose bright idea was it to turn it on?
3) Where do I send a note to let him know what I think of his
parentage?-))))

This has happened on all PC's that I have tested it on.
Trying the things suggested when I googled, made no difference and
does not seem relevant. (The zone setting of 1802 was 0 for all
except the restricted zone.)
A quick overview of zone security options did not pop up anything
obvious.

This kind of drastic change in monthly updates is NOT appreciated.
And we won't even discuss what the reboot from the Feb update did to
my email. My
email provider is still trying to figure out how to get my mail box
unclogged. (26 or 57 MB of mail backed up depending on where they
look.) Needless, to say I'm no longer running the autoinstall feature
of
windows update on that PC.

Regards,
Al

 

[Al Christoph]

If by the very last entry you mean the one that begins "Web sites ..." then
I'm afraid that setting that to enable in all four zones did NOT help. Even
leaving IE and returning did not help. Reboot requried?

To the lurkers at MS, i trust that this will work much, much better in IE7.
If a person has permission to copy and paste or drop and drag and does it
manually, then they don't want to be bugged. You need to be able to detect
the difference betweeen a scripted operation and a manual operation. (Yes,
that probably violates some principle of equivalence of all operations, but
excess bugging of users is NOT appreciated. See David Pogues of the NY Times
on line column from this week.)

Regards,
Al

[<whispers> Look at the very last entry in Miscellaneous, Al. You must
deal with this setting in each Zone.]

Be careful! There are Bad Guys out there that will take advantage of the
exposed vulnerabilities in this less-than-secure setting. This change was
done for your Protection. I would only enable it when absolutely
necessary and on a per-case basis.
--
~PA (as in Pennsylvania) Bear

Thanks for the response.

In checking the zones as you have suggested I see that
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
is set to enable for all zones as it always has been. There are also
prompt and disable options.

It appears that MS now treats enable as prompt. Is this correct? If so
this is a ridiculous and very annoying change!

Or am I missing another setting.

Is doco'd in a KB article? A quick search did not turn up anything.

Regards,
Al
who sometimes poses as Papa Bear at http://3bears.biz

Recent critical security updates have restricted Drag and Drop and
Copy/Paste (among others) between IE security zones.

See IE Tools>Internet Options>Security>[zone]>Custom>Miscellaneous>...
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security


Al Christoph wrote:
The subject prompt (Do you wish to move or copy files from this
zone?)
has
appeared as of the February security update. Questions:

1) How do you turn this off?
2) Whose bright idea was it to turn it on?
3) Where do I send a note to let him know what I think of his
parentage?-))))

This has happened on all PC's that I have tested it on.
Trying the things suggested when I googled, made no difference and
does not seem relevant. (The zone setting of 1802 was 0 for all
except the restricted zone.)
A quick overview of zone security options did not pop up anything
obvious.

This kind of drastic change in monthly updates is NOT appreciated.
And we won't even discuss what the reboot from the Feb update did to
my email. My
email provider is still trying to figure out how to get my mail box
unclogged. (26 or 57 MB of mail backed up depending on where they
look.) Needless, to say I'm no longer running the autoinstall feature
of
windows update on that PC.

Regards,
Al

 

[PA Bear]

Reboot requried?

Yes. You're changing a Registry setting.
--
~PA Bear

If by the very last entry you mean the one that begins "Web sites ..."
then I'm afraid that setting that to enable in all four zones did NOT
help. Even leaving IE and returning did not help. Reboot requried?

To the lurkers at MS, i trust that this will work much, much better in
IE7. If a person has permission to copy and paste or drop and drag and
does it manually, then they don't want to be bugged. You need to be able
to detect the difference betweeen a scripted operation and a manual
operation. (Yes, that probably violates some principle of equivalence of
all operations, but excess bugging of users is NOT appreciated. See David
Pogues of the NY Times on line column from this week.)

Regards,
Al

[<whispers> Look at the very last entry in Miscellaneous, Al. You must
deal with this setting in each Zone.]

Be careful! There are Bad Guys out there that will take advantage of
the exposed vulnerabilities in this less-than-secure setting. This
change was done for your Protection. I would only enable it when
absolutely necessary and on a per-case basis.
--
~PA (as in Pennsylvania) Bear

Thanks for the response.

In checking the zones as you have suggested I see that
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
is set to enable for all zones as it always has been. There are also
prompt and disable options.

It appears that MS now treats enable as prompt. Is this correct? If so
this is a ridiculous and very annoying change!

Or am I missing another setting.

Is doco'd in a KB article? A quick search did not turn up anything.

Regards,
Al
who sometimes poses as Papa Bear at http://3bears.biz

Recent critical security updates have restricted Drag and Drop and
Copy/Paste (among others) between IE security zones.

See IE Tools>Internet
Options>Security>[zone]>Custom>Miscellaneous>... --
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security


Al Christoph wrote:
The subject prompt (Do you wish to move or copy files from this
zone?)
has
appeared as of the February security update. Questions:

1) How do you turn this off?
2) Whose bright idea was it to turn it on?
3) Where do I send a note to let him know what I think of his
parentage?-))))

This has happened on all PC's that I have tested it on.
Trying the things suggested when I googled, made no difference and
does not seem relevant. (The zone setting of 1802 was 0 for all
except the restricted zone.)
A quick overview of zone security options did not pop up anything
obvious.

This kind of drastic change in monthly updates is NOT appreciated.
And we won't even discuss what the reboot from the Feb update did
to my email. My
email provider is still trying to figure out how to get my mail
box unclogged. (26 or 57 MB of mail backed up depending on where
they look.) Needless, to say I'm no longer running the
autoinstall feature of
windows update on that PC.

Regards,
Al

 

[Al Christoph]

All eight places set to enable and reboot and still no happiness:-(((

Regards,
Al

Reboot requried?

Yes. You're changing a Registry setting.
--
~PA Bear

If by the very last entry you mean the one that begins "Web sites ..."
then I'm afraid that setting that to enable in all four zones did NOT
help. Even leaving IE and returning did not help. Reboot requried?

To the lurkers at MS, i trust that this will work much, much better in
IE7. If a person has permission to copy and paste or drop and drag and
does it manually, then they don't want to be bugged. You need to be able
to detect the difference betweeen a scripted operation and a manual
operation. (Yes, that probably violates some principle of equivalence of
all operations, but excess bugging of users is NOT appreciated. See David
Pogues of the NY Times on line column from this week.)

Regards,
Al

[<whispers> Look at the very last entry in Miscellaneous, Al. You must
deal with this setting in each Zone.]

Be careful! There are Bad Guys out there that will take advantage of
the exposed vulnerabilities in this less-than-secure setting. This
change was done for your Protection. I would only enable it when
absolutely necessary and on a per-case basis.
--
~PA (as in Pennsylvania) Bear


Al Christoph wrote:
Thanks for the response.

In checking the zones as you have suggested I see that
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
is set to enable for all zones as it always has been. There are also
prompt and disable options.

It appears that MS now treats enable as prompt. Is this correct? If
so
this is a ridiculous and very annoying change!

Or am I missing another setting.

Is doco'd in a KB article? A quick search did not turn up anything.

Regards,
Al
who sometimes poses as Papa Bear at http://3bears.biz

Recent critical security updates have restricted Drag and Drop and
Copy/Paste (among others) between IE security zones.

See IE Tools>Internet
Options>Security>[zone]>Custom>Miscellaneous>... --
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security


Al Christoph wrote:
The subject prompt (Do you wish to move or copy files from this
zone?)
has
appeared as of the February security update. Questions:

1) How do you turn this off?
2) Whose bright idea was it to turn it on?
3) Where do I send a note to let him know what I think of his
parentage?-))))

This has happened on all PC's that I have tested it on.
Trying the things suggested when I googled, made no difference
and
does not seem relevant. (The zone setting of 1802 was 0 for all
except the restricted zone.)
A quick overview of zone security options did not pop up anything
obvious.

This kind of drastic change in monthly updates is NOT
appreciated.
And we won't even discuss what the reboot from the Feb update did
to my email. My
email provider is still trying to figure out how to get my mail
box unclogged. (26 or 57 MB of mail backed up depending on where
they look.) Needless, to say I'm no longer running the
autoinstall feature of
windows update on that PC.

Regards,
Al