Windows 10: Why am I getting "The files might be harmful to your computer" warnings whenever I try to...

As stated, I'm trying to move picture files from one folder to another on my USB drive, but for some reason I'm getting these stupid "these files might be harmful to your computer" errors pop-ups! It didn't happen yesterday or the day before, and when it happened a few months ago it just stopped one day. I know these files are safe, so why the heck am I getting these pop-ups?!

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Get rid of: Warning: "These files may be harmful to your computer"

Thank you again. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SmartScreenEnabled is off.
Total Commander sounds like a decent idea. Does it copy & sync between different computers on a LAN?

By the way, I don't think I ever posted the exact error message:


I erased the actual computer name, but it suggests that it's in the Internet Options rather than the Intranet Options. I don't know why that would be.

 

Get rid of: Warning: "These files may be harmful to your computer"

It's FreeCommander, and yes as you can see, that Z: was mapped drive but you can use UNC path too:





Regarding error msg, it may suggest

- either to use mapped drive instead of UNC path
- or try to place affected files to different shared folder than Application Data.

Do not worry about Internet/Intranet. Completely wrong terminology, these terms do not apply to files at SMB shares at all.

 

Get rid of: Warning: "These files may be harmful to your computer"

The last two things to check:

1) This registry value





2) Temporarily disabling of your antivir/security apps/suites.

If nothing helps, as a workaround, you can use some file manager, for example Free Commander; it has handy DirSync tool: