On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 at 17:58:32 UTC, David Colson wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to download DMD 2.071.1 on Chrome Version
52.0.2743.116 m (the most recent version as of today) and I
can't get the download past the virus checker.
Assuming it's a false positive (which it may not be, hence why
I'm here asking) why is it getting caught and what can I do
about it? I can't find anything in the chrome settings for
disabling virus checking on downloads.
I even tried to download it in Microsoft Edge (on Win10) and it
still got caught.
How do I proceed?
Chrome just uses whatever virus scanner you have (usually Windows
Defender unless you've installed a third party).
If you open Windows Defender you can go to History and restore
the file from quarantine. Do so at your own risk, of course.
Maybe it does have a virus.
We do get a lot of false positives with the installer but lately
I've been worried about the extra NSIS DLLs we use. They are just
pulled from the NSIS wiki...not a very trustworthy source for
binaries. We should really switch to an MSI at some point. I have
no experience with those unfortunately.
