It is unclear right now why Safe Browsing is flagging the files, but they don't appear to be malicious. It appears that they have contacted third-party antivirus vendors as well, which flagged files as problematic on VirusTotal. The operators have requested a review of the issue, but have not heard back yet from Google. According to the post, Portable Apps noticed the issue on Jfor the first time. Portable Apps has begun to redirect downloads to SourceForge for the time being to allow Chrome users to download files unhindered.Ī post on the official site reveals additional information on the issue. There may be a small number of false positives, but all major antivirus engines do not detect threats in the downloaded files. The frightening message is overshooting it this time, as the downloaded programs test fine on Google's Virustotal service. The box "I understand this download will harm my computer" needs to be checked before the continue download button becomes active. A click on the tiny arrow on the right of it displays information and an option to keep the download.
Other browsers may display warnings or allow downloads directly.Ĭhrome displays one main action - delete - in the browser's download panel after starting a download from Portable Apps. Microsoft Edge warns users that the files are not commonly downloaded, but does not flag the downloads as malicious. Brave, which uses Google Safe Browsing, blocks the download just like Chrome. Firefox, which uses a special version of Google's Safe Browsing, downloads files just fine.
Chrome blocked the download and returned "dangerous" as the reason.ĭownloads in other browsers continue to work. Google Chrome users who attempted to download applications from Portable Apps in the past couple of days noticed that the integrated Safe Browsing feature of the browser was blocking downloads. The site maintains a large list of programs for Windows that users from all over the world may download this includes portable versions of programs that don't support one officially. Portable Apps is a popular destination for downloading Windows applications that don't need to be installed.
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