The frightening message is overshooting it this time, as the downloaded programs test fine on Google's Virustotal service.

The box 'I understand this download will harm my computer' needs to be checked before the continue download button becomes active. A click on the tiny arrow on the right of it displays information and an option to keep the download. Other browsers may display warnings or allow downloads directly.Ĭhrome displays one main action - delete - in the browser's download panel after starting a download from Portable Apps. Microsoft Edge warns users that the files are not commonly downloaded, but does not flag the downloads as malicious. Brave, which uses Google Safe Browsing, blocks the download just like Chrome. Firefox, which uses a special version of Google's Safe Browsing, downloads files just fine. Chrome blocked the download and returned 'dangerous' as the reason.ĭownloads in other browsers continue to work.

Google Chrome users who attempted to download applications from Portable Apps in the past couple of days noticed that the integrated Safe Browsing feature of the browser was blocking downloads. The site maintains a large list of programs for Windows that users from all over the world may download this includes portable versions of programs that don't support one officially. Portable Apps is a popular destination for downloading Windows applications that don't need to be installed.

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