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

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

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?

Chrome just uses whatever virus scanner you have (usually Windows 
Defender unless you've installed a third party).

If you open Windows Defender you can go to History and restore 
the file from quarantine. Do so at your own risk, of course. 
Maybe it does have a virus.

We do get a lot of false positives with the installer but lately 
I've been worried about the extra NSIS DLLs we use. They are just 
pulled from the NSIS wiki...not a very trustworthy source for 
binaries. We should really switch to an MSI at some point. I have 
no experience with those unfortunately.