Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?
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@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.
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@rseiler Still no-one knows why it appears yet. I never saw the message in years, both in chrome and on vivaldi (this also on other machines).
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@Mike5 said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
...It appears on EVERY SINGLE BROWSERWINDOW and shadows the background of the current tab on every Vivaldi-Window
This is also happening to me over the last several weeks. I can answer in one window, but the popup is showing over every open window - and once answered only responds to the close button.
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I don't know for a fact that this will affect us (for the worse, of course), but somehow I expect that it will:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-is-enabling-chrome-real-time-phishing-protection-for-everyone -
I found the solution that works for me on the Russian thread: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/39254/-/118
The "harmful file" warning appeared only when I tried to "Save" the file to the default location. I checked Chromium's setting "Ask where to save each file before downloading", and checked Vivaldi's setting "Save files to default location without asking". With these settings on, it immediately shows Windows' file location picker and the file is downloaded without issues.
You can access Chromium's settings through
chrome://settings/downloads, and Vivaldi's - throughvivaldi://settings/downloads/. The links redirect to, seemingly, the same address, but they're actually different pages for some weird reason. -
@Abbysssal The chrome://settings/... links access internal Chromium-core pages in Vivaldi whereas the vivaldi://settings/... links access settings popup.
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@DoctorG Yeah... It's really confusing, since the end addresses look almost the same. Chromium's settings address is effectively invalid, since it redirects to Vivaldi's.
vivaldi://settings/downloads- Chromium
vivaldi://settings/downloads/- Vivaldi -
@Abbysssal When i copy&paste these URLs in my 6.5 browser both show Vivaldi settings page.
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@DoctorG Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
chrome://settings/downloadsredirects tovivaldi://settings/downloads, but then if you try to go tovivaldi://settings/downloads, it goes to Vivaldi's settings atvivaldi://settings/downloads/.Well, either way, Vivaldi's settings are missing the "Ask where to save each file before downloading" toggle. And it's really non-intuitive to access it through Chromium's settings. A normal user wouldn't even think that there are two sets of essentially the same settings.
Is there an active bug report for this issue?
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@Abbysssal
Hi, do you mean this in vivaldi://settings/downloads/ ?
If I disable it, it is also disabled in chrome://settings/downloads
Cheers, mib
EDIT: It does not redirect it only change the the URL and this is odd.
