Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

2011-08-04 guest — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:59:47 GMT

I thought the unblock.js could really 'unblocked' a EXE file, but can't.

How to create a unblock.js, simply create a new text.txt.

Rename to unblock.js, right-click edit.

Copy and Paste everything below into file:

// Script to "UNBLOCK" all files in the current directory by pete.at.redtitan.com

// (c) RedTitan Technology 2007

// http://www.pclviewer.com

var shell=new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");

fso=new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

var total=0;

var f=fso.GetFolder('.'); // Current folder

var fc=new Enumerator(f.files);

for (; !fc.atEnd(); fc.moveNext()){

var fileName=fc.item().Name+':Zone.Identifier';

try

{

f1 = fso.OpenTextFile(fileName,2); // If the Zone Identifier does not exist ..

total++;

f1.Close();

}

catch(e){} // .. we don't care

}

shell.Popup('Unblocked '+total+' files');

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

WTF_is_happening — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:51:09 GMT

Watch out for this one: (using IE6 XP-SP3)

Have a bunch of local pages made from downloading web manual, suitably modified for off-line viewing by taking out all the useless fluff and fixing all the links to other pages in the manual. Note: this was done as a batch lot by processing the pages through a filter into temporaries and then renaming over the originals (thus erasing :Zone.Identifier). Then wanted to add one more page so downloaded it and processed it manually, i.e. NO temporary. All the existing pages could link to it but trying to go back via links in the new page produced nothing. I mean literally NOTHING. Clicking the link had no effect whatsoever not even an error. Even more confusing was that a direct copy of the page produced the same effect but if I copied the contents and pasted it into a new file then it worked OK. Finally noticed the file blocked item on the properties. After reading the above (and some extra searching through MSDN) found that <filename>:Zone.Identifier:$DATA (opened using wordpad as in msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb540537(v=VS.85).aspx) contained

[ZoneTransfer]

Zone=3

Zone 3 means internet. Changed it to Zone=0 (curiosity), i.e. local computer, and then everything worked fine. The only problem I have now is figuring out why it did this (again curiosity).

It should be noted that the JScript solution doesn't remove :Zone.Identifier, it just blanks it. Wondering whether the presence of an empty :Zone.Identifier:$DATA might cause problems down the track (Win 7.1/IE 10?).

Scorecard - NAME: Microsoft

Course: Computer Science 101

Grade: D-

Comments: Poor error reporting in submitted project. Must do better if student wishes to obtain professional employment.

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

Gudbarnone — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:28:30 GMT

Excellent tip Glen - and thanks heaps again to Mark from Sysinternals! Saved a lot of hassle on my 500Gb USB drive (a little big for FAT Peter!) which has replaced my slab of DVDs. I shuffle it between work and home, XP, Vista Win 7 and download from whatever I'm plugged into. Streams ran through and removed the the Zone Identifier attribute which I'd never heard of until yesterday!

Definitely agree with Rickfreezerburn though - too much is hidden by MS now making me feel like Inspector Clouseau!

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

Kendalbeefcake — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:33:23 GMT

Thanks dude, this has been driving me crazy..

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

Meifter — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:55:01 GMT

Thanks very much for the guide, you have saved me also countless hours as i have alot of TAFE documents and even online research .html and .pdf files i know are safe and hate wasting the time applying unblock to files i know are safe its a tiresome rigmorale.

I use Firefox 3.51 and win xp professional and this tool streams i copied into system 32 folder and type into the run interface "streams [-s] [-d] <file or directory>" works a treat!

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

smillachan — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:35:53 GMT

'Streams' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

That's what I get when I type the given line in the command prompt. Anyone have any suggestions? I've been looking all over for a solution to this problem and nothing ever seems to work. I'm running XP Home, and the files in question came from Firefox, which, for some bizarre reason, decided to add in this "feature" in their update. I'm pretty much ready to tear my hair out.

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re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

Anthony — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:47:21 GMT

Does anyone have definitive rules on what creates these and when?

Is it only MSIE that causes this?

Is there a difference between downloading from FTP::// v.s. HTTP://?

It is critical for us to make sure our clients do not hit this problem when they download our software, but I have no idea how to protect against this "protection".

Additionally, I've been downloading files for ages and have never run into this issue until yesterday. I spent most of the day hunting down web server permissions before I found the actual cause.

This is quite disturbing. Personally I am quite glad I will be shedding my Microsoft chains after this weekend.

Thanks

re: Tips: Streams, Zones, Vista and Blocked Files in IE

Rahul — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:11:59 GMT

Hi,

The JS Script to unblock a file downloaded from internet was good.

but is there a vbscript version of the same.

If yes then do post it over here.