Can't download from Envato

Hi,

I just bought another newsmag license. While downloading directly from Envato Google Chrome stops the download and warns me that the file could be malware.

What does this mean? Just keep it?

Thanks,
Carolin

• This topic was modified 10 years by Larane.

Hi

I am not sure why Google Chrome warns you regarding the theme’s folder. We checked the theme’s folder, also envato check it before being approved for sale and there is no virus or malware so you can ignore the warning and download the folder.

Thanks!

It doesn’t say it’s malware, it says “this file is not commonly downloaded” … which merely means Google’s caching system for Chrome hasn’t had a lot of hits to that specific file. You can simply click the arrow and select “keep” … or more info.

The language used here DOES imply “oh no, danger Will Robinson …!”
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6261569?p=ib_download_blocked&hl=en&rd=1

Apparently ThemeForest has had their share of bad eggs:

More info for software developers and website owners
To help protect users, Google maintains a list of websites that are known to host malicious downloads and a list of trusted software publishers. If you're a software publisher and your binaries are flagged by Chrome, learn how to resolve malware or unwanted software issues related to your downloads.

This is part of Chrome’s updated security which has a “threshold” for files loaded off the web and downloaded to hard drive, to stop malicious files being written to your HD when they are zero day files.

Several other files do same thing, like a u-design theme update, and woocommerce tabs plugin. Newspaper 6.5 does not 🙂

In case anybody was curious about that 🙂

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.