Since web browsers and plugins do run with your credentials, a compromised website could inject files into your program files without your knowledge. This security keeps your system from being impacted by malware. Most users very rarely have to save a file to this location.
In fact, more than This small inconvenience the few times that you might do this will keep your system safe. However you are the administrator and if you want you are free to remove this security if you choose.
Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Some programs can elevate themselves to access secure areas. Even after the program is already running in a limited context, it can elevate when required actions that require elevation show that shield icon.
Notepad or whatever program could be re-written to have elevation handling, but it's probably just not worth the effort. Still I agree with you that it would be useful, it's frustrating in the scenarios you mentioned or when you want to, for example, modify your HOSTS file. Best thing you could do in terms of security is probably what you did do: save the file then drag it into the desired location. Or if you want, right-click Notepad or whatever program and "run as administrator" for that session so it can access all those places.
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My computer is Windows 8. Click that to pull down the menu, then select Internet Options. When the properties sheet opens, click the second tab, marked Security. Click the Custom button and scroll down the list to the section headed Downloads. Under File download, there are two radio buttons for Enable and Disable.
Make sure the Enable setting is selected. The Security tab shows a sliding scale with three settings, and the middle one is the best choice: Medium-high. With this setting, IE10 should prompt you before you download something that might be unsafe, without preventing you from doing it.
You'd only set the slider to High if you were visiting sites that you didn't think were safe, but you could try the lower setting as a temporary fix. Are downloads blocked from just one or two websites? If so, you could add these addresses to the browser's list of Trusted sites. To do this, click the green tick and then the button marked Sites, and paste an address into the box that says "Add this website to the zone".
This should stop IE10 from blocking it. Now see if you can download your file. Do some sites always work while others always fail? If so, it may be the website's fault. IE10 is a very good standards-compliant browser, but some sites are behind the times.
The way round this, sadly, is to make IE10 pretend to be an older, inferior version. To do this, go back to the Tools cog and pick "F12 developer tools" from the dropdown menu. This will open a pane at the bottom of the screen.
Click on the words "Browser Mode: IE10" to pull down a menu that provides a list of choices. I mention this because it's sometimes the only way to get a website to work properly, but I don't recommend it. If you think you might have made a mess of IE10's settings in Windows 8, you can always re-set them to the defaults by following Microsoft's instructions.
Readers with older versions of Windows can do this by clicking a single Fixit button Microsoft Fix it Of course, if you can't download a file with IE10, the obvious workaround is to use a different browser, preferably the latest version of Firefox.
It's slightly less secure than Google Chrome because of Chrome's sandboxing, but it is more stable, and in my experience, handles more tabs while consuming fewer resources. I run it alongside IE10 all the time. If Firefox doesn't download what you want, Mozilla has a trouble-shooting page: What to do if you can't download or save files. When it comes to Norton Internet Security, I am somewhat handicapped by not having a copy.
However, I would expect it to block some websites, and the files from those websites. I would not expect it to block a file from an unblocked website unless it reckons the file is bad. If you are sure the file is safe then you can, as your friend suggested, get around the block.
If you do this, scan the file with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware quick scan. Again, I'd prefer to find a workaround. Two that spring to mind are using Secunia's PSI and using a file downloader instead of a browser. You mention "problems updating One of them is to use an "app store" such as All My Apps or Ninite. The idea is to download all the Windows programs you need from the same safe store, which will update them all at once, without visiting all the separate websites.
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