Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?
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@RasheedHolland Two posts above for VB. But I guess is treated as a feature request, being a chromium "security" feature.
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@Hadden89 said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland Two posts above for VB. But I guess is treated as a feature request, being a chromium "security" feature.
Thanks, I now see it. But in other Chromium based browsers like Opera and Edge I don't see this message if I'm correct. Vivaldi should have fixed this years ago! It's the dumbest "security" feature that I have ever seen. And the funny thing is, I didn't get any message when I just downloaded the latest Vivaldi snapshot.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/happy-new-year-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2160-3/
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@RasheedHolland The "feature" is also affected by the OS in use, the file (especially if unsigned) and other security features like UAC status, but probably even Defender or SmartScreen.
For awkard reasons, several users see the message more often (on my w10 is very rare to trigger).
So, totally in to a way to disable this. Do a request as Gwen suggested above and you'll have my +1 -
@Hadden89 said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland The "feature" is also affected by the OS in use, the file (especially if unsigned) and other security features like UAC status, but probably even Defender or SmartScreen.
For awkard reasons, several users see the message more often (on my w10 is very rare to trigger).
So, totally in to a way to disable this. Do a request as Gwen suggested above and you'll have my +1On Win 8.1 I have UAC, Win Defender and Win SmartScreen disabled. On Win 10 I have Win Defender and Win SmartScreen enabled, but I get this alert on both Win 10 and 8.1, so it makes no difference.
@Gwen-Dragon said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland The warning depends on OS and site's URL you have visited to download and allowed keep some types of file content.
My opinion on this: a disturbing Chromium feature.It's indeed disturbing, but it's even more disturbing that developers of Vivaldi haven't been able to fix this. I wonder, do you guys also see this warning in Brave, Opera and Edge?
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@RasheedHolland It's a warning I don't get here, on Win10, with UAC and Windows Defender enabled. Makes me wonder what sort of .exe's you're downloading, and from where.
Interestingly, I do get the warning sometimes in Linux Mint, and it is clearly in the OS interface, not the browser. So, I dunno what to tell ya...
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@Ayespy said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland It's a warning I don't get here, on Win10, with UAC and Windows Defender enabled. Makes me wonder what sort of .exe's you're downloading, and from where.
Interestingly, I do get the warning sometimes in Linux Mint, and it is clearly in the OS interface, not the browser. So, I dunno what to tell ya...
I don't know myself what triggers the warning and when, as even to me on some sites it's shown always and on some other never, but as I said many times it is from "%localappdata%\Vivaldi\User Data\FileTypePolicies\43\download_file_types.pb" (the 43 can vary as it's the version number) and it is a chromium feature. The same file once was always taken into consideration by the browser, infact I could even edit it with an hexeditor, then with a python script, to enable/disable the warning on specific extensions contained in that list, now it seems the browser only reads it from its encrypted/packed version embedded in the dll resources and there's no point in editing the download_file_types.pb anymore.
When I try to download this Commodore 64 program from my own dropbox
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygu0zq4f6qlc7uy/DOSSIERDEMO.fix.prg?dl=0
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@Ayespy said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland It's a warning I don't get here, on Win10, with UAC and Windows Defender enabled. Makes me wonder what sort of .exe's you're downloading, and from where.
Interestingly, I do get the warning sometimes in Linux Mint, and it is clearly in the OS interface, not the browser. So, I dunno what to tell ya...
Well, the plot thickens because I have just noticed that on SnapFiles I don't always get this warning. I don't get it when downloading Sandboxie, SMPlayer and KeePass, but I do get it with Process Monitor which is from Microsoft, strangely enough.
So you tell me why? What the hell, I now see that all of a sudden I also don't get this warning on Softpedia, when downloading HitmanPro.Alert, but I do get it with Hotspot Shield? So seems like this problem is all of a sudden partially fixed?
https://www.snapfiles.com/downloads/sandboxie/dlsandboxie.html
https://www.snapfiles.com/downloads/processmonitor/dlprocessmonitor.html
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/HitmanPro-Alert.shtml
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@iAN-CooG said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
I don't know myself what triggers the warning and when, as even to me on some sites it's shown always and on some other never.
Well, I would almost classify it as a bug in Vivaldi, because I just discovered that with the exact same download I sometimes get this warning message and sometimes I don't. I've just tested it with Hotspot Shield, I downloaded it twice via Softpedia, one time I got the warning and the second time it stayed silent. And on my Win 10 machine I get the warning when downloading Core Temp, but on my Win 8.1 machine I get nothing, so there is definitely something weird going on.
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No warning here even with .prg and .js (which is quite hilarious)
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
And on my Win 10 machine I get the warning when downloading Core Temp
Not on my Windows 10, no warning at all.
But isn't this a bug? Why would I see this warning with certain files and with others not? It doesn't seem to be consistent, it doesn't seem to matter whether files are digitally signed or not. Also, Win Defender and Win SmartScreen are enabled, I suppose this is the same on your machine? I have only disabled UAC which is another pointless security feature.
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@RasheedHolland said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
I have only disabled UAC which is another pointless security feature
Agreed, I disabled UAC on the first day using win7 when launching an exe it prompted me something like "Are you the one executing this program?". NO SH*T SHERLOCK. I don't want to be treated as a retarded by my PC.
If I order my PC to blow itself up, it has to do it. End of the story -
@RasheedHolland If the same file with other chromiums don't show the alert - could be a bug. But only about half testers can replicate the issue, so I still fear will be treated as feature or a bug with a very low priority.
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@Hadden89 said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland If the same file with other chromiums don't show the alert - could be a bug. But only about half testers can replicate the issue, so I still fear will be treated as feature or a bug with a very low priority.
But surely the developers must be able to modify it, even if it's a Chromium feature? And like I said, sometimes I get the warning and sometimes I don't, there doesn't seem to be any logic behind it.
@iAN-CooG said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
@RasheedHolland said in Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?:
I have only disabled UAC which is another pointless security feature
Agreed, I disabled UAC on the first day using win7 when launching an exe it prompted me something like "Are you the one executing this program?". NO SH*T SHERLOCK. I don't want to be treated as a retarded by my PC.
If I order my PC to blow itself up, it has to do it. End of the storyYes, the person responsible for UAC and the download warning in Chromium is the biggest idiot ever. Security tools like anti-virus and anti-exploit should take care of any threats, no need to keep asking the obvious questions.
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I've just done a test on my Win 10 machine, I could download CopyWhiz and Enpass directly via Softpedia, even though Softpedia simply redirects to the homepage of these software companies. But when I tried to directly download them from the homepage of CopyWhiz and Enpass I got the stupid .exe download warning. So is this a bug or what? Because the funny thing is that normally it's safer to directly download software from the homepage instead of downloading it from some other third party site, so it doesn't make any sense.
https://www.enpass.io/downloads/
https://www.conceptworld.com/copywhiz/Download -
So can anyone reproduce it? If downloaded from Softpedia I get no warning, but when directly downloading from the software developer's site, I get the stupid warning on Win 10.
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I do not wanna hijack this thread, but I got a similar issue in my Vivaldi:
When I click on several direct links on .exe files with middle mouse button (open tab in background), which creates several of these annoying warning, my browser crashes.
On my first try the browser shut down with the second link.
In the second try I was not able to click on "allow" or "cancel", not even on the X to close the windows. After a few seconds, the browser also crashed.
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@pedestrian
Hi, independent of the feature request report the bug/crash to the bug tracker, please.For information on how to report a bug, see this URL: https://vvld.in/how-to-report-bugs
Once that is done, please share the bug number (beginning with VB-). Thanks.
On the form, you can add your email address. Once submitted, you'll get a confirmation. You can reply to this with any logs or further info.
Cheers, mib
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Hi @mib2berlin,
thank you for this information.
I just reproduced it once more and opened VB-77224. -