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

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 9 14:15:07 PDT 2016


On 8/9/2016 1:15 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> 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.

This is a chronic recurring problem, it happens with the Norton tools, too. I 
suspect the trouble is rooted in using a compiler/linker that the scanning tools 
don't recognize the footprint of, so their default behavior is "virus".


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