Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?
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@QuHno I think is sounds nice. As someone that downloads Amiga files and various ancient formats, having a quick method would be great.
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@2635599 said in [Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?]
not true, my roommate gets this on his logitech and ati drives that he was downloading directly from their respective sites.
You don't seem to understand what I wrote. The source of the file is irrelevant. The program checks for the file's extension - it doesn't check the file's content nor the download source. It doesn't have a definition of an "official xyz manufacturer's website", it's not an anti-virus. It's a simple script that is triggered by certain file types, regardless of their potential harmfulness.
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@pafflick I can download the imagus.crx file now without warning in the internal build - let's hope that it is not only a fluke.
@2635599 I just succesfully downloaded latest Adrenaline driver from the AMD website and the Logitech drivers with 2.5.1525.48 W10 and there was definitely no warning. Are you sure that the "may harm your computer" warning comes from Vivaldi?
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@QuHno said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
Are you sure that the "may harm your computer" warning comes from Vivaldi?
of course it is, it's a Chromium "feature"
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/chrome/browser/resources/safe_browsing/README.md
Why it doesn't trigger on every setup is beyond me tho. This should be answered by the devs.By googling for it, I accidentally found someone who was proposing how to patch it
https://superuser.com/questions/594792/disable-this-type-of-file-can-harm-your-computer-nag-in-chrome -
@raed said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
chrome://settings
it is already disabled here, still I need the hack for not showing the warning on the blacklisted extensions
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@raed I tried it already, no change, I tried downloading a .prg from
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=178641
or an .exe from
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=34685
or an .crt from
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=135965
(this is a Commodore 64 scene database where I'm a moderator, the files are harmless)
and I get the warning. Unless I hack the download_file_types.pb to allow prg/crt/exe extension.
Probably the fact the urls are on a https site that flag doesn't matter, as it's specific for insecure (http) connections. -
@raed I'm on win7 32 bit, maybe makes a difference on which os we are.
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@iAN-CooG I don't get the warning even with the "Safe browsing" enabled...
Vivaldi 2.5.1525.48 64-bit on Win10 x64 -
@pafflick So maybe it's active only on win7. What os were you using 3 years ago when you got the warning triggered on crx files, as stated at start of this topic?
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@iAN-CooG Windows 10. I ditched Window 7 long before I started using Vivaldi...
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@Hadden89 said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
@raed @iAN-CooG Same here on w10.
Safe browsing is off; no warning (Vivaldi 2.6.1546.4).
Guess the "protection" is still enforced for w7.I'm on Win7 64-bit v2.5.1525.40 and can download any of those files without any nags.
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@iAN-CooG said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
of course it is, it's a Chromium "feature"
I know - but as long as I don't see a screenshot, the faint possibility exists that the W10 protection interferes or something else triggers a warning.
... and there is the UAC which reacts on the ADS that is added to downloaded files ...
Not saying that someone mixed it up, but just to make sure.
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@QuHno said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
UAC
Oh, Now that I think of it, I have disabled that on all my PCs, it's just an added layer of annoyance for me. My PCs don't have to tell me what to do, they have to obey me, not the other way.
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@iAN-CooG Don't disable UAC. UAC isn't your PC isn't telling you what you have to do. If anything, UAC is informing you that something might be happening without you telling your express consent.
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@LonM said in Any way to disable the "This type of file can harm your computer" warning?:
@iAN-CooG Don't disable UAC. UAC isn't your PC isn't telling you what you have to do. If anything, UAC is informing you that something might be happening without you telling your express consent.
Actually it's exactly that, it asks me for nothing if it's me who pushed enter on an executable (are you kidding me?)
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@iAN-CooG Oh, someone browses as Administrator. Well, ...
... you can do that if you are on Russinovich level, but otherwise it is not recommended.
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I thought I'd better reply to this topic instead of creating a new, so, forgive me a bit of necromancing here. So, I updated my Vivaldi from 3.0 to latest 3.2 and now the problem with the download warning is back. What I did up to now, was to edit download_file_types.pb and resources.pak, changed ie exe to xxx and no more warnings. Now, after the update, download_file_types.pb is as I had left it (exe as xxx) and there are no extensions contained in resources.pak ergo, the warning is back and I've not found the way to disable it. Anybody knows what file keeps the extensions info now that they're no longer contained in resources.pak? Thanks!
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@vulture resources.pak is now somewhat compressed now, and since a long time now modifying the .pb file makes no difference whatsoever. I don't know anymore how to bypass this annoyance.
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Ah, I see. So, the extensions are still somewhere inside resources.pak, but they're unreadable due to compression. Thx for the info! I really hope someone comes up with a solution for this.