Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?
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@mattshepherd There are many previous threads on this issue, e.g.
Any way to disable the disable this type of file can harm your computer warning
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Ppafflick moved this topic from Vivaldi for Windows on -
@mattshepherd No. This appears to be an aspect of Chromium that the Vivaldi devs have not figured out, but since they don't talk about it we can only guess.
It pretty much happens when it should in Chrome, which is almost never. And it happens very often in Vivaldi, almost always when it shouldn't. Too bad.
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@iAN-CooG said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
I could only fix this issue by hexediting the file
%localappdata%\Vivaldi\User Data\FileTypePolicies\7\download_file_types.pb
find the extension you want to be ignored and replace with XXX or whatever you prefer.The folder is a bit different now:
%localappdata%\Vivaldi\User Data\FileTypePolicies\52\Editing the file
download_file_types.pbworks for me in Vivaldi 5.4.2753.47 (Stable channel) (64-Bit). Thanks!
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Дело не в браузере. Нужно указать Windows список "безопасных" типов файлов для загрузки из интернет.
Выполнить из командной строки:
Reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations" /v "LowRiskFileTypes" /t REG_SZ /d ".zip;.rar;.7z;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mkv;.mp4;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;" /f -
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@Capushon said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
Дело не в браузере. Нужно указать Windows
I won't ask what to do in linux
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Сохранение с вызовом окна выбора каталога работает нормально и без шаманства с реестром, если что.
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@sedative29rus said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
Сохранение с вызовом окна выбора каталога работает нормально и без шаманства с реестром, если что.
Что тогда?
Как воспроизвести проблему, посмотреть? -
@sedative29rus Please ask in english in this international forum or ask in you local forum of your language.
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@Capushon Please answer in english in this international forum or in reply of sedative29rus in local forum of your language.
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Hello. I was able to disable the warning ".exe save" on v5.4.2753.51 (Stable channel) (64 bits), Win 10.
All methods have already been described here, but I will explain how I did it, including my mistakes.
- The anti-phishing google checkbox is unchecked in the settings.
- Setting the parameters IE, group policies, registry - all applied, but without results - the warning appears.
- Through notepad++ replaced "exe" with "xxx" in download_file_types.pb with no results. Here I made a mistake and edited with the browser running. Restart browser didn't help. The warning appears.
- Then I closed the browser. Copied the UserData profile folder to another location and deleted the original UserData.
When the browser was launched, a new profile was created, immediately edited download_file_types.pb in it, and copied this redacted file to the old profile folder with a replacement. - Closed browser, and deleted the current profile (which is new) and moved the old one back.
The browser started up with all the old settings as it was, but now it does not ask when downloading "exe" if you click "save".
I checked when downloading the driver from the AMD website, there used to be a warning, now it's gone. On other sites, too, without warnings.
It can help someone...
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@dontaskanything said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
Hello. I was able to disable the warning ".exe save" on v5.4.2753.51 (Stable channel) (64 bits), Win 10.
- Then I closed the browser. Copied the UserData profile folder to another location and deleted the original UserData.
I just tried this in 5.6.2867.50 (Stable channel) (64-bit), Win 10. Unfortunately, the fresh UserData profile it created doesn't seem to even include a download_file_types.pb file anymore. The FileTypePolicies folder it creates is empty.
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In my case this stupid popups appear BEFORE the download can start. It appears on EVERY SINGLE BROWSERWINDOW and shadows the background of the current tab on every Vivaldi-Window! Almost like: "You are now nuked, it's over!"
How unbelievable childish is this dear Vivaldi Team?!
I can click on 'Keep' to save the file, still all the other popups on the other Vivaldi Window tabs are still there... cancel does nothing, have to close the popup windowS ('X').
Please give me a break dear Vivaldi Team.
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@Mike5 said in Confirmation popup after download:
How unbelievable childish is this dear Vivaldi Team?!
This is not Vivaldi fault, but it's in the Chromium core.
It's been years we have this annoyance and nobody wants to do anything about it.
I made a Python script to mitigate the problem years ago, but too bad it doesn't seem to work anymore
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/11827/any-way-to-disable-the-this-type-of-file-can-harm-your-computer-warning/22?page=2It's like they want to maliciously annoy the users to the point they'll switch to firefox
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@Mike5
Hi, this is a Chromium security feature not Vivaldi´s.
Open chrome://downloads and check if any downloads are still cached.Cheers, mib
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@Mike5 said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
How unbelievable childish is this dear Vivaldi Team?!
No need by to act without any respect!
The error popup is a Chromium core security feature. Vivaldi team can not fix it.
Perhaps some malware databases from Chromium are not up to date on your PC.
Open vivaldi://components and update all entries with "Check for update" -
@Mike5 Why the h.... do you post twice?
⇒ https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/672962
I report such now. -
My continued question: if it's a Chromium feature, why is the problem more pronounced here as compared to Chrome?
Any why don't the workarounds, such as editing download_file_types.pb (in particular) and adding extensions to LowRiskFileTypes in the Registry actually help? Something must.
