First post, by BitWrangler
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Hi gang,
Anyone else noticed this in last couple of Chrome updates, it's blocking files on the basis of "not many other people downloaded this, it's got an exe in it and might give you brain cancer." or some crap. Save all the "Chrome is useless, use my favorite browser or I'll be emotionally scarred", stuff, I want to know if there are solutions on Chrome to avoid this.
The security settings do not appear to be granular enough, block dangerous downloads or turn security off altogether. Now obviously I don't want to inadvertently download anything that has actually been scanned, confirmed and tested to contain malware, but I DO NOT need halfassed guesses about which ancient DOS shareware etc might possible on the outside chance contain something a bit iffy just because chrome doesn't recognise it. I can select ignore and download, but it strips the OG filename and I have to find some string of numbered file and rename it. This is too many actions to be convenient at all, would not mind if it was just one "are you sure.". I am nowhere particularly dodgy, it's happening on files I am trying to check out from the shareware CD images at cd.textfiles.com
What I would like to be able to do is turn off the guessing, only block actual bad files which are more likely to be linked on a google search for more modern drivers. It's like it doesn't want me going somewhere that google doesn't collect revenue from.
So is there any way of controlling this or is security on or off the only solution? Are there plugins or addons that can help with this?
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