download in chrome causes "suspicious download blocked" notification

[sdwarwick]

Something about the zip files in the releases causes "suspicious download blocked" message to show up in chrome browser. is there something that would be easy to fix to prevent that?

[attilammagyar]

I cannot seem to be able to reproduce the issue: I can successfully download all of the ZIPs on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 with Google Chrome 119.0.6045.105 (Official Build) (64-bit), even with Safe Browsing set to the highest level ("Enhanced protection").

Google's Safe Browsing site status page also reports the website as safe, and I get the same result for the GitHub Releases page.

However, GitHub seems to serve the actual files from URLs like https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-abcdef12345, and the Safe Browsing status of this indicates that it doesn't know if the URL is safe due to "a lot of content" being associated with it.

1. What Chrome version are you using? Do I assume correctly (based on your previous issue, Compile directly with Visual Studio & Win 10/11 #22) that you're using Windows?
2. Does this problem occur with all files, or just specific ones, especially the FST (VST 2.4) ones which contain a DLL file?

[attilammagyar]

Well, maybe I don't see this warning because I tried it a few hours later.

Apparently other people run into the same problem from time to time, and the theory in this comment from some Google support forum sounds plausible to me:

From https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6261569

Uncommon: You tried to download an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous piece of software.

People will get blocked, UNTIL Google has scanned it. Alas it is all very mysterious, on how to get Google to scan.

Can you check if you still get the warning?

[sdwarwick]

happy to report that this problem resolved itself with an update to the latest chrome version: 119.0.6045.124

[attilammagyar]

I'm glad to hear that, thank you!