Realspace
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Posted on: August 17, 2014, 06:21:48 pm |
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I wasn't sure where to put this thread, but "Issues" seemed to make sense. Here's what happened: I went and downloaded the Windows package (at http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Install:Windows), and the moment it finished Chrome reported it as 'dangerous' (or something to that effect). This was on Chrome 36.0.1985.143 m (as of writing the current version). Chrome in this situation doesn't let you ignore that (it actually deletes the file), you have to manually go into settings and turn off the detection Chrome does if you want to actually open the file. I know this isn't an issue in the sense of "doing this makes Enigma crash", but I think it was worth noting. (Only other thing to note: I tried joining the IRC channel through the web IRC client to mention the issue, but it said I was banned. Not sure why.)
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« Last Edit: August 17, 2014, 06:25:08 pm by Realspace »
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Darkstar2
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Reply #1 Posted on: August 17, 2014, 08:25:10 pm |
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Chrome is right in a way, ENIGMA is dangerous...... but in a good way / or bad way, depends how you look at it ! lol!, you might discover that on your own eventually But on a serious note, there is no malware in ENIGMA, I have 2 trusted software on my PC, MalwareBytes Pro and AVIRA Premium and everything is just fine. It is not ENIGMA itself that is the culprit but the self extractor - something is throwing off the heuristics scanning / or have properties similar to a malware that is falsely detected as malware. It's not the first or last piece of software that gets false positives
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Goombert
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Reply #3 Posted on: August 23, 2014, 10:19:04 am |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA Joined: Jan 2013
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While I do agree with daz about just changing the extension to .zip or .7zip, .exe should be recognized by Chrome as fine, I consider this to be an issue with them. They ought to know by now what self-extracting 7zip's are.
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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Goombert
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Reply #6 Posted on: October 02, 2014, 05:11:54 pm |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA Joined: Jan 2013
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Hey thanks Destron! That is very helpful of you! I would like to mention someone should tell Josh to tell Google because Josh does work for Google, and who better to fix Google Chrome than Google... and a Google software engineer... who is Josh... who founded ENIGMA... that doesn't work with other Google software?
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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lonewolff
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Reply #7 Posted on: October 02, 2014, 08:42:48 pm |
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Chrome (and IE) complain about almost every single exe that you can download. From personal experience, if I zip up the exe you are fine.
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Josh @ Dreamland
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Reply #9 Posted on: October 05, 2014, 09:37:28 am |
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Prince of all Goldfish
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: Feb 2008
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If we really wanted to fool the system, we'd just password-protect the zip's file list. It's inconvenient for users either way. I figured that as a society, we were past "OMG EXE VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS," but apparently, we never will be.
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"That is the single most cryptic piece of code I have ever seen." -Master PobbleWobble "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Friends of Voltaire
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onpon
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Reply #14 Posted on: October 08, 2014, 05:22:30 am |
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Some people still think they can only infect their system or get malware through EXE.
Well, that's mostly true on Windows, since exe is the only extension used for executable binaries (though technically a batch script could cause an infection, I don't think they're ever used for the purpose; binaries are far easier to get people to run), and I don't think those dangerous "macros" in MS Word are typically used/trusted anymore, are they? If a file is really just data that is never transformed into instructions for execution, it simply is not possible to use it to cause an infection, short of exploiting huge software bugs. The problem with Windows, though, is that extensions are hidden by default, so people can get away with distributing files with names like "cat.jpg.exe" and making people think it's an image file. It also doesn't help that Windows executables can have icons embedded into them.
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