Only Chrome displays the warning message. Neither Chromium nor Firefox, which uses Google's Safe Browsing database as well, display it at the time. Google is doing the right thing in my opinion even though it may not be enough, as the warning is not highlighting why that program is potentially dangerous.
A better explanation, maybe even with a link to a help page offering further information would be welcome. One side-effect of displaying the warning for all program downloads, even direct ones that don't contain wrappers, is that people may associate "bad" with the company developing the software and not with the download portal. This too could be resolved by improving the algorithm and information displayed on the screen to make it clear that the download site is the offender and not necessarily the company that developed the program.
So which sites are affected by the message? Sites that are known to wrap downloads in advertisement packages such as Sourceforge, Download. First of all, the message should only be displayed if software is offered in wrappers or if software itself contains adware offers. The system right now does not seem to make a distinction between any of that.
If you download Firefox from Softpedia you get a message that the file could harm your computer even though the download and installer are clean. That's bad for Softpedia, Mozilla and maybe also the user who may decide not to download the program even though it would not do any harm.
Unless I missed that Softpedia started to use ad-wrappers as well, it is unclear why warnings are displayed on the site. Google needs to fine tune the feature. First, it should not display the warning for files that are offered directly unless they include adware. I think that this can be easily done by analyzing file names of said wrappers on sites that use them.
Second, it should make it clearer that the program itself is not the culprit here but the download portal. It paints a negative image on the developer, Mozilla for instance, if Firefox is flagged as a file that can harm your computer.
Third, it should really do something about the exposure of these download portals in its search engine as this is where the majority of traffic comes from. Even when downloading google chrome installer eg. You are right. I just tested it and it seems that all executable file downloads show that warning.
But then it started no matter of options in settings. Warnings are not only for exe files. Thanks for clarifying this. I find it completely irresponsible to use such language to describe a file that you have no information on. But if google has no information about the file, they should say they have no information about the file, and not scare people. Useless and time consuming if everything needs to have a dire warning. Why should they get a pass? Softonic especially has unsuccessfully attempted to redirect me to tons of useless downloads in the past.
Are they saying that because these three sites are notorious for that kind of behavior they will be dismissing it? Moreover, its not so much the download that gets you as it is the tricky little agreements embedded within the software at installation you have to watch for. If not RUN down there now!
The week will be over before you know it! Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. How to tell Microsoft Edge to let you download a file it's blocking You can override SmartScreen and its protections.
Matt Elliott. Disable SmartScreen in Edge You can disable SmartScreen in the Windows Defender Security Center app in total or just for Edge, but for the latter it's faster to do so right within Edge itself, particularly if you are already using Edge.
Windows Defender setting In Windows Defender, you can also change Edge's SmartScreen to merely warn you when you are about to download a file it deems suspicious instead of it outright blocking it. I've tried everything I've read in numerous places, task killer, process hacker and so many more but none will work - with them all I get access-denied so I am left with ZERO choice, one I so did not want to do, I will have to restore my computer to before I installed Avast.
Reason I hate doing that is I will now have to have a whole bunch of microsoft updates re-installed which ends up taking quite a while - although I have spent wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more time trying to figure out how to avoid doing that.
Go ahead and brush me off as some crazy guy Pondus Probably Bot Posts: My guess is that if the OP doesn't know all AV's have removal tools then I'd expect their computer to be full of leftovers from other anti viruses causing a number of system issues. Recommendation: Remove all traces of old antivirus programs using link provided by Pondus.
Personally I think Avast is one of the biggest pieces of crap I have ever used. In what way does Avast wreck your files? Probably the worst anti-virus scandal in history. Sorry you other sceptics the dude was 18 months ahead of the curve. True getting rid of it was like pulling teeth and AFTER using the removal tool if you searched for Avast it was still there in another place running in the background. Blue chip companies buy this rubbish. Look up www.
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