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Google recently flagged downloads of my app as a malware for no reason whatsoever. It's a B2B software used in companies worldwide since 2005, digitally signed,
by grujicd 5y ago
Google recently flagged downloads of my app as a malware for no reason whatsoever. It's a B2B software used in companies worldwide since 2005, digitally signed, virus checked, not a freeware with some stange business model. Nothing even remotely shady. As good as it gets when we're talking about downloadable stuff.
When download gets flagged Chrome will block the download, but that's not all - Firefox is using Google's safe browsing service as well, meaning my Windows software was only available through Edge at that point. Essentially dead.
Luckily, it was sorted out in a day or two but it was really scary. First request for review was even rejected, so I poured more info and arguments into second one, mentioned that we're advertising this software on Google Ads for all those years...
If these requests were denied it would practically kill my company and the only source of income for my family. And I'm not even using their platform like Google Play where you're in contractual relation and they can argue you're breaching some of the clauses.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- heavyset_go 5y agoThis also happens with websites that distribute application downloads. If one system flags your application download as malware and puts it on a list, those lists are shared to, and aggregated by, organizations that exist up and down the software and network stack. At no point does anyone actually verify if what is on those lists is actually malware.
- chillfox 5y agoSo have a pool of separate domains for downloads?