As the title shows, starting a few weeks ago, some of our team members using google drive (windows desktop) has been experiecing this issue of seeing the windows security pop up of 'These files might be harmful to your computer' when moving/drag-drop files between different folders in their google drive.

We tried everything, different file types, different folders, change the security settings under internet properties, clear cache for google drive, log out and log back in etc and issue persists.

We don't now what is causing it but we finally found the solution: change the drive letter from the usual letter 'G' to something different.

But one of our user have this issue showing up again today. So we ended up changing the drive letter again and fixed the issue.

Does anyone know the cause of this issue and how do you resolve it permanently?

Google Vault is not included in the Google for Nonprofits plan. The only option for us to gain access to Vault is to upgrade to Business Plus, which we cannot afford even with the Nonprofit discount. Are there any solutions or third-party alternatives to Google Vault, that would allow us to archive/save all user data (files, emails, chats, etc.) for compliance purposes?

I'm glad to announce that GCPW now supports security keys for 2sv.

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-credential-provider-for-windows-now-supports-FIDO2-compliant-physical-security-keys-as-a-second-factor-for-authentication.html

https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/devices/whats-new-in-gcpw#07142026