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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Sugar Land, TX
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I was trying to download Realm Works for the first time. I thought my email for kickstarter is the one where I receive all the updates for kickstarter. That email did not work so I tried another email just for the heck of it and much to my surprise Realmworks Beta began to download.
After waiting for the file to download in Chrome I got a message at the end of the down load that says File 'RealmWorks_0...exe' appears malicious. Chrome wants me to discard this file. I want to keep it. Should I be worried? I having been waiting most anxiously to get this tool. But I don't want to wreck my PC. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,528
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You can get a lot of false alarms, especially with files / programs that are new and don't have a history of being installed successfully by large numbers of people.
There's usually a longer explanation of why something is seen as malicious, or possibly malicious. It could just be that whatever antivirus is checking it is just being cautious. |
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: near Detroit - where the weak are killed and eaten
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got the same message - but I am up and looking around with no reaction
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Posts: 27
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Thanks. I cannot wait any longer. Diving in.
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Birmingham, UK
Posts: 459
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From Kickstarter...
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Sleet was enjoying a tasty beverage at his local tavern, when a Tarrasque showed up in the local area. He managed to valiantly get on it's back and ride it. How he did it is a mystery to this day... RW: Engine Heart, I Love The Corps! Home Brew: Star Gate: Avalon, Monda Minutia. I'm good with: OpenOffice, Paint, Lego Digital Designer. & not so good with: Realm Works, Hero Lab, CC3+, GIMP, Cityographer, Hexographer, Fractal Mapper, AstroSynth, Inspiration Pad Pro. RW Kickstarter Supporter. |
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Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 8,232
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The issue is that Chrome actually performs NO checking of any files for viruses. It simply assumes that any potentially executable file is infected. Only after enough people download the file without reporting a problem do they then stop issuing false warnings.
All Google needs to do is revise the language of their warning to be accurate and the problem goes away. Simply tell users the file is unknown and has no history, so the user should be cautious and run some sort of anti-virus scan to check the file before using it. But accuracy like that would apparently be wrong for Google, since it doesn't feed into our alarmist society. <sigh> |
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 25
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