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Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support
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Downloading a release triggers Chrome malware alert #2295

Open jsuria opened 3 years ago

jsuria commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Tried downloading one of the releases, Chrome blocks it then displays a malware alert.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to the releases and download a package.
  2. Chrome should display some kind malware alert and block the download.

Expected behavior No malware alert when downloading.

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Additional context Added screenshot of Windows Defender scan,

jimmystewpot commented 3 years ago

PUA means "Potentially Unwanted Application" see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentially_unwanted_program

It's to ensure that people don't inadvertently download software which may not be what they want, In this case it's telling you that you are about to download a potentially unwanted coin miner. Which in this case it is exactly what you do want.