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This only applies to executables I think, as I've never seen the warning on Firefox Nightly.

elcapitan 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
creshal 10y ago
Still something I'd consider an anti-feature, as it both punishes small software authors/projects and creates confusion on new releases even for bigger projects.
- r1ch 10y ago
  Browser security and anti-malware in general is increasingly a nightmare for small ISVs that release software that does anything remotely suspicious (eg DLL injection). As a personal anecdote, my website has been blacklisted multiple times by safebrowsing, downloads have been blocked as "XXX is malicious", multiple AV products have found "malware" in a program that's never even been released before, etc. I have to email 10-20 different anti-virus companies with samples every release and then deal with the ones who want it in a different format or submitted through a web portal instead. Then we have the problem that contacting any human about safebrowsing false positives is nigh impossible. Take a look at the report right now - https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/?hl=en#url=r1ch.net https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn... - "Some pages on this website send visitors to dangerous websites. Some pages on this website install malware on visitors' computers." yet it says "Current status: Not dangerous". And Webmaster tools can't seem to find anything specific: http://i.imgur.com/HzT8xfC.png http://i.imgur.com/HzT8xfC.png
  - Hupriene 10y ago
    Given that google has proven pretty indifferent to who its robots run over, one wonders why we should trust them to build self driving cars.
  - wlesieutre 10y ago
    Just today I was having trouble making a Windows installer flash drive because Trend Micro didn't like Rufus trying to make an autorun.inf file. Had to add it manually. I'm not sure if the "Windows 10 Media Creation Tool" also has this problem since it doesn't recognize Sandisk flash drives as being flash drives (presumably Sandisk's fault). If anyone's run it on a computer with Trend Micro I'd be curious to hear.
- gcp 10y ago
  as it both punishes small software authors/projects and creates confusion on new releases even for bigger projects. Do you have actual evidence of this happening? I get no warnings for my own stuff, even though I'm sure it's pretty uncommon :-)
  - throwanem 10y ago
    We ship an nw.js-wrapped version of one of our apps for offline use in the field, and it certainly does provoke the "uncommon download" warning in Chrome. We've had people raise concerns about it. Market positioning insulates us from serious ill effect, but I can absolutely see how it could impair companies that aren't.

Thanks for the clarification!

Still something I'd consider an anti-feature, as it both punishes small software authors/projects and creates confusion on new releases even for bigger projects.

r1ch 10y ago
Browser security and anti-malware in general is increasingly a nightmare for small ISVs that release software that does anything remotely suspicious (eg DLL injection). As a personal anecdote, my website has been blacklisted multiple times by safebrowsing, downloads have been blocked as "XXX is malicious", multiple AV products have found "malware" in a program that's never even been released before, etc. I have to email 10-20 different anti-virus companies with samples every release and then deal with the ones who want it in a different format or submitted through a web portal instead. Then we have the problem that contacting any human about safebrowsing false positives is nigh impossible. Take a look at the report right now - https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/?hl=en#url=r1ch.net https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn... - "Some pages on this website send visitors to dangerous websites. Some pages on this website install malware on visitors' computers." yet it says "Current status: Not dangerous". And Webmaster tools can't seem to find anything specific: http://i.imgur.com/HzT8xfC.png http://i.imgur.com/HzT8xfC.png
- Hupriene 10y ago
  Given that google has proven pretty indifferent to who its robots run over, one wonders why we should trust them to build self driving cars.
- wlesieutre 10y ago
  Just today I was having trouble making a Windows installer flash drive because Trend Micro didn't like Rufus trying to make an autorun.inf file. Had to add it manually. I'm not sure if the "Windows 10 Media Creation Tool" also has this problem since it doesn't recognize Sandisk flash drives as being flash drives (presumably Sandisk's fault). If anyone's run it on a computer with Trend Micro I'd be curious to hear.
gcp 10y ago
as it both punishes small software authors/projects and creates confusion on new releases even for bigger projects. Do you have actual evidence of this happening? I get no warnings for my own stuff, even though I'm sure it's pretty uncommon :-)
- throwanem 10y ago
  We ship an nw.js-wrapped version of one of our apps for offline use in the field, and it certainly does provoke the "uncommon download" warning in Chrome. We've had people raise concerns about it. Market positioning insulates us from serious ill effect, but I can absolutely see how it could impair companies that aren't.