Posted on 01/14/2021 4:23:56 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
One of my laptops running W10 that updated to ver 2004 tried to label the Brave browser download as "potentially harmful." Just a heads up, however this may be old news as I delay windows updates in general. Have not gone to 20H2. I am in IT by trade and also run Linux (especially on rpi4s)
Folks that are unfamiliar or less savvy may be prevented from installing Brave because of it.
And this was on the first Win10 I found: 1909 Version 10.0.18363.1198
with Edge: 86.0.622.69 (Official build) (64-bit)
"BraveBrowserSetup.exe was blocked because this type of file can harm your device."That's an expected, standard warning on executable files (type .EXE). Downloading executables from the Internet should get flagged as potentially dangerous. I don't think they're picking on Brave itself; I would expect this warning for any .EXE file.
Whether the warning can be defeated with a setting.... maybe. I'd personally consider that more unsafe.
used to never be on all executables unless edge upped their code. used to only flag “hacker tools” that were executables.
I’d love to fulfill your needs. But I can’t as I’m not the person who reported the problem.
FWIW, I’m running Win 7 (forever) and Brave. Nice browser!
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