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Comment by J_Darnley | Hacker News Reader

> Browsers also use them to flag files downloaded from the internet.

Is that where that annoying shit comes from? Good to know. When firefox kills off DownThemAll I will then use a FAT partition to store downloaded files (and see if I can force the temporary files to go there too).

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I laugh these days when OSX warns me, "This application was downloaded from the internet." when I first access an app.

Every application on my machine was downloaded from the internet. Even the OS, after the first upgrade. That's not what is dangerous.

stick this in a reg file

  REGEDIT4
  
  ;https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/889815
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
  "SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS"="1"
  
  ;https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783259
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download]
  "CheckExeSignatures"="no"
  "RunInvalidSignatures"=dword:00000001
  
  ;https://support.microsoft.com/kb/883260
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
  "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"
  "DefaultFileTypeRisk"=dword:00001808
  
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments]
  "SaveZoneInformation"=dword:00000001

Unless it has changed in newer Windows versions, you can simply disable that warning in the Internet Settings, no need to keep files in an outdated filesystem.

>use a FAT partition to store downloaded files

Do you never download anything bigger than or equal to 4 GiB?

Not from a browser and, AFAIK, only a browser idiotically marks files as coming from the internet.

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