One of my daily routines as an online freelancer was downloading and uploading files. Clients would send me files that may either contain instructions or actual data to be worked on.
One day I was stopped by this mysterious message:
It was displayed at the lower left corner of my Chrome browser and it happened as I was downloading a file. The crazy thing is that I was downloading a Word doc file, not an application that may indeed come with a sinister malware hidden in it. Ok, so a Word doc file may have a macro that's actually disguised as a virus. But this is not the case, because this file was from a message thread on my Upwork account that's already posted months ago, and it so happened that I can't find that copy on my laptop so I decided to just download it again. And unlike other scenarios wherein you would have the option to download it anyway at your own risk, this one wouldn't let you download it, so you're stucked!
A quick Google search reveals the answer. Google Chrome has this updated security feature that prevents downloading of files for our protection. While this is good, but what if we're 100% sure it's a safe file and you really need to download it anyway? Besides, this pop-up came up almost instantaneously, leading me to guess that it didn't really scanned the file before blocking it...
So here's one solution (I said one because I discovered there are more possible options and tricks to go around this problem, which I will share in my other posts) to this issue:
1) Go to your Chrome settings (look for the 3 vertically arranged dots in the upper right part of your Chrome browser, click on it, and click on "settings")
2) find and click on "Advanced" somewhere below...
3) under Privacy and security (and assuming you're using an updated version of Chrome), click "Sync and Google services"
4) locate "Safe Browsing" and turn it off using the sliding switch on its right
5) close the settings tab and you're good to go!
While this solves the problem, you might want to turn it on again later especially if there are other people using your computer, just to be sure a real virus/malware threat comes in.
One day I was stopped by this mysterious message:
It was displayed at the lower left corner of my Chrome browser and it happened as I was downloading a file. The crazy thing is that I was downloading a Word doc file, not an application that may indeed come with a sinister malware hidden in it. Ok, so a Word doc file may have a macro that's actually disguised as a virus. But this is not the case, because this file was from a message thread on my Upwork account that's already posted months ago, and it so happened that I can't find that copy on my laptop so I decided to just download it again. And unlike other scenarios wherein you would have the option to download it anyway at your own risk, this one wouldn't let you download it, so you're stucked!
A quick Google search reveals the answer. Google Chrome has this updated security feature that prevents downloading of files for our protection. While this is good, but what if we're 100% sure it's a safe file and you really need to download it anyway? Besides, this pop-up came up almost instantaneously, leading me to guess that it didn't really scanned the file before blocking it...
So here's one solution (I said one because I discovered there are more possible options and tricks to go around this problem, which I will share in my other posts) to this issue:
1) Go to your Chrome settings (look for the 3 vertically arranged dots in the upper right part of your Chrome browser, click on it, and click on "settings")
2) find and click on "Advanced" somewhere below...
3) under Privacy and security (and assuming you're using an updated version of Chrome), click "Sync and Google services"
4) locate "Safe Browsing" and turn it off using the sliding switch on its right
5) close the settings tab and you're good to go!
While this solves the problem, you might want to turn it on again later especially if there are other people using your computer, just to be sure a real virus/malware threat comes in.
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