Windows 7: 'Some files can contain viruses' warning when clicking on hyperlinks

Yes, I set up the Trusted Location from within Excel Options. The correct folder path is shown and I have included subfolders (though there aren't any). I still get the warning message...

Are the files local to your PC?
How are you inserting the hyperlink?

I was able to duplicate the warning when the location was not "trusted". When the location was added to the trusted locations, I was able to insert the hyperlink without any warning. I even clicked on the cell and it played the wav file.

Soooooooooooo. You're missing something.

OK, will look again (and post back of course). Thanks!

(Yes, local files on the PC. I inserted the hyperlink by right clicking the cell, choosing 'hyperlink' and browsing to the file).

Hopeless! I go into Excel, Click the Office button in the top left-hand corner, choose Excel Options, go to the Trust Center and then Trust Center Settings and Trusted Locations. See screenshot. The path is correct.

The warning comes up every time. I can't see what I am missing - will have to give up at some stage (before the frustration gets to me!).

Martin

In the same Excel document by the way, I can open some hyperlinks and not others: links to .xlsx, .bmp, .jpg or .docx files (for example) open fine. But those to .wav, .wmv or .mp3, for instance, do not. I need to disable the warning on the basis of file type I guess? I would, if I knew how.. I'll search a bit longer.

What is the E drive? Is the folder shared? I think there's some restriction on "trusted locations". I could be wrong (working from memory) but a trusted location can't be on a NAS drive or in a shared folder since by definition, these are not secure.

Yes, it is a shared folder. But why would I be able to open certain file types and not others (from the same folder)? I'll try adding a hyperlink for a .wmv file in a folder that is not shared in any case and see what happens.

Hello

I work in an office using multiple computers with the same OS. We use an Access database with SQL backend to open files on a shared drive.


I currently have a similar problem with xml files triggering the “Some files can contain viruses or otherwise …”


Recently we had a huge problem with this popup and found that it seemed to have been caused by someone associating all file types with VLC media player. This caused huge problems but I have slowly rectified these.

With multimedia files I found that only by associating the extension with the latest version of Windows Media Player 11 did this resolve it. I did this by editing the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ext DEFAULT key with windows media player11 e.g. WMP11.AssocFile.MP3

I also found that with non multimedia files the Default value could be set to txtfile and this would resolve the issue.

I have now found the problem occurring on xml files being opened with Access on one machine only.

Can anyone make any suggestions to resolve this issue please?

Thanks



p.s.The reason I am posting in this thread is that this issue is so specific.