Security Prompts for Internet Shortcuts (in Favorites Folder)

Pyprohly said:

XLR8TX, the security prompt you see is ordinary behaviour and I recommend you don’t try and change it.

"Ordinary behaviour"? No sir.

Like I said before, I've had this PC for over 5 years (while using the favorites folder in the same manner) and have never had this issue.

Thanks again for your time.

XLR8TX said:

Pyprohly said:

XLR8TX, the security prompt you see is ordinary behaviour and I recommend you don’t try and change it.

"Ordinary behaviour"? No sir.

“Ordinary”, as in if every member on this forum browsed to their Favorites folder right now and tried to open a shortcut there they’d receive the same security prompt you and I see. It’s supposed to occur, it’s default behaviour, and therefore ordinary.

If you’ve never seen this prompt in 5 years I cannot explain why.

Anak said:

Would I be correct in thinking your cmd would follow that path and set the integrity label for that path to .lnk's, while Bosacker's path is to the desktop where his links are and that causes the difference?

These commands are not the same. The intention behind each is different. My command says to apply a Medium Mandatory Integrity Label to a single, specific file “file.lnk” located in “C:\path\to”, while Bosacker’s applies a Medium Mandatory Integrity Label to the folder “C:\Users\<username goes here>\Desktop” and the Integrity Label is set to propagate to all child files and folders within this folder.

Bosacker’s issue involved shortcuts that strictly reside outside the Favorites folder. Consequently, my initial suggestion here of moving the shortcuts off to another file system and back again would have aided his problem and would have been the optimal thing to do, instead of running the Icacls command he did and set a quasi-permanent Integrity Label onto his Desktop folder.

Anak said:

Hmmm...May be I have a wrong security setting; If you're talking about the Favorites Folder in the Menu bar of IE, I can open any link in there and I do not receive that warning.

We’re talking about shortcuts in the physical Favorites folder, “%userprofile%\Favorites”. Invoking any shortcut under this hierarchy through Explorer will yield a security prompt due to the folder emitting a Low Mandatory Integrity Label to all child files and folders.

After conferring with a few folks on the Microsoft Community forums, we have determined that the culprit of this new prompt behavior is a recent Windows update as I had originally speculated in the first post.

It is this IE update in particular that precipitated these security prompts to be generated:

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3185319)

Anak said:

XLR8TX said:

After conferring with a few folks on the Microsoft Community forums, we have determined that the culprit of this new prompt behavior is a recent Windows update as I had originally speculated in the first post.

It is this IE update in particular that precipitated these security prompts to be generated:

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3185319)

Any word if microsoft will change it or do they believe it is a security enhancement and will let it alone?

My guess is that MS is probably done fiddling with W7. Unless an update causes serious issues they will probably just leave it as is.

Too bad, since I'm accustomed to my old browsing habits.

KB3185319 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3185319

UsernameIssues, Excellent Info.

After conversing with other users on several forums, I knew those prompts were not there before for most if not all users.

Do you know of any workaround for this?