Could you cancel the warning after download a exe?
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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
I always get the warning after confirming the Save button.
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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
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Hotspot-Shield.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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@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.
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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
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@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
