Unable to download DMD as Chrome is convinced it contains a virus

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 9 11:47:20 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 at 17:58:32 UTC, David Colson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to download DMD 2.071.1 on Chrome Version 
> 52.0.2743.116 m (the most recent version as of today) and I 
> can't get the download past the virus checker.
>
> Assuming it's a false positive (which it may not be, hence why 
> I'm here asking) why is it getting caught and what can I do 
> about it? I can't find anything in the chrome settings for 
> disabling virus checking on downloads.
>
> I even tried to download it in Microsoft Edge (on Win10) and it 
> still got caught.
>
> How do I proceed?

It's very very likely a false positive. You can trust Martin (all 
downloads are signed by him).

That's weird - VirusTotal says its "clean"..

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/83c6e277f735b9a8283c9dfd640d9eec4c369256866aa8c8d8d316682e30ac6e/analysis/1470768297/


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