Closed jayc331 closed 1 year ago
Unfortunately nothing the project or any of us can do anything about other than reporting it as a false positive and waiting for Google to decide that its in fact a false positive and remove the flag. The project contains no malware, but unfortunately, open source projects tend to get flagged like this for numerous reasons. You see it all over different projects on GitHub and other sites like it
a bit of a long-winded approach but i got it to work. I have google drive desktop synced on my computer, I download the .EXE on my phone, upload it on drive, then i run the exe from the google drive folder on my computer.
For future reference, you can also just go to the Downloads page in Chrome iirc and tell it that yes you are sure download the file
My concern was the fact that it's being flagged as malware, rather than asking for a way to ignore the warnings.
I know, was talking to the other person. It's flagged incorrectly, not much we can do about it
For future reference, you can also just go to the Downloads page in Chrome iirc and tell it that yes you are sure download the file
lol thanks for the tip, that was so much simpler. I rarely open the downloads page I didn't know it was possible to tell the browser to keep the file from that page.
Brave Browser also blocks the .exe. Chromium must use the Microsoft Malware API to check files. And Microsoft has many reasons they are actively blocking users from choosing what browser they want to use. It seems the monopoly tactics are back.
You are reading too much into this, it happens all the time with things completely unrelated to anything Microsoft is involved with. It has to do with how heuristic detection engines work, if the network hasn't seen a particular file a lot, and I mean on a LOT of computers, its more likely to immediately assume its malicious and try to quarantine or refuse its download until it is manually reviewed. Doubly so if not triply if the file in question doesn't adhere to "normal" practices or have a code signature
5 out of a gigantic list of venders only furthers proof its a false positive. Especially since half of them I've never even heard of and the one I have is known for constantly having false positives
Duplicate of #37
Click "View All Downloads" to keep the file
Preflight Checklist
Install Type
New Install
Install Mode
Unsure
Steps to reproduce
Downloading from Github website on Firefox flags as malware.
✔️ Expected Behavior
Downloads
❌ Actual Behavior
Flags as virus :wtf:
Microsoft Windows version
Windows 11 Pro - 21H2 (22000.1098)
Other Software
Firefox 106.0.1 (64-bit)