Blocked in Chrome as "contains harmful programs"
schuderer opened this issue · 10 comments
First of all, thanks a lot for this useful tool!
Opening a DownGit link triggers a warning in chrome, e.g. https://minhaskamal.github.io/DownGit/#/home?url=https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fhello%2Ftest
This happens (in Chrome) for all links I try to open in DownGit.
I am unsure why this is triggered, but sort of get it, as a shortened DownGit link could theoretically be misued to get someone who clicks on it to download (not execute) almost anything from GitHub (but then again, so could GitHubs own "download repo as zip" link, so is it really as bad?...).
I could not find out why this is the case specifically (i.e. what those cases were that Chrome claims were abusing the site to have people harmful things).
The same for firefox
I am having the same issue. Seems, someone may have used DownGit in distributing malwares :(
Same issue for me. Does someone have an alternative?
My solution was to make zipping the stuff-to-download a part of the build process and to distribute the resulting file with the docs (see referenced PR above your comment). That way, every release has its own examples, which is even somewhat cleaner than before. Not a solution that will fit many use cases, I admit.
Not mine at least, but thank you for your idea.
Yeah, Just had this issue when looking at a blog template.
After looking into it a bit more I'm a solid 70% sure it got flagged for it's relation to your TrojanCocroach project or this Minecraft project.
Relevant VTGraph here
Yes, I assume that too. And I am really sorry for this.
Recently Gowngit has been moved and published from a new place- https://downgit.github.io
You can still go on the page by accepting the risk..
Finally, it seems DownGit has been exculpated!