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Here we go again: Internet Explorer Outrageous Unacceptable Labeling of Unknown Programs as Harmfull - PROTEST PROTEST PROTESTA user reports today that trying to download a DonationCoder program results in a new dialog in Internet Explorer 9: "[PROGRAMNAME] is not a commonly downloaded program and could harm your computer"  And then the dialog practically begs the user to delete the dangerous file. Here we go again. This is an absolutely outrageous unacceptable message, just as bad if not worse than the false positive fiasco in the antivirus world. You cannot go telling people that you think a download could harm their computer without any basis for doing so. If you want to tell people that "Hey i've never seen this program so i'm not going to vouch for it's safety" that's fine. But you just cannot tell people downloading a file "this could harm your computer" just because the program hasn't passed some mystery f*cking qualification. This is how these big guys play this game -- they know they don't have to worry about their software being marked as harmful so they don't give a damn if they scare people away from independent developer stuff. IE should be avoided like the plague until they fix this. Absolutely outrageous. Please complain loudly and share this information widely -- these companies cannot be allowed to keep playing this game of scaring the life out of users every time they find a file that hasn't made it to some "approved" software list that the big companies control. PROTEST LOUDLY -- this is not ok. Once again Microsoft seems absolutely hell bent on destroying their reputation and running their company into the dirt. |
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