Risks of IE settings: launch programs and dangerous files - enabled for Web Sites

Hello

Could someone share with me knowledge about security settings in Internet Explorer?

The parameter name is:

Launch programs and dangerous files

I wonder what the risks are when this setting is "Enabled" for the Internet zone.

Our client has suffered recently with security warnings when you open a local shortcut. Targets of shortcuts even to local building Windows applications such as Wordpad. And it does not matter where the shortcut is present, whether on office files or local like c:\temp

The security warning is of type: publication could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?

The problem only started after the installation of Internet Explorer 11. Customers with the old version of IE does not suffer from this issue.

We have confirmed two work solutions:

1. launch programs and potentially dangerous files - enabled for the zone Internet

2. Add the registry entry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]

«LowRiskFileTypes "=".avi;.» beats;. com;. cmd;. exe;. htm;. HTML;. lnk;. MPG;. MPEG;. MOV;. MP3;. MSI;. M3U;. rar;. Reg;. txt;. vbs;. WAV;. zip; »

But we would need to know the security risks for the launch of programs and dangerous files - enabled for the Internet zone.

Somehow, I'm not able to find a good article that describes this feature and risk.

Or can you suggest an alternative? Could this be caused also by a patch?

Thanks in advance

Hi Marek,

Thank you for the update.

COMPUTER experts in the forum TechNet with expertise to solve and answer your question, I would ask post you your query in TechNet. I belong to the consumer forum.

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