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Originally Posted by CalibUser
I downloaded the update in Google Chrome. It produced a warning that the file is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous - this seems to be a false warning as my virus checker revealed no issues and the checksum works out OK.
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Yes. That commonly happens. It's not technically a "false warning", though. The file is NOT commonly downloaded. Which is Microsoft's sole reason for flagging it as potentially dangerous. That's why we provide checksums and signatures to allow you to assure yourself that we uploaded the file, and that it wasn't tampered with afterward.
This is a pre-release, so it may never see the hits necessary for the "not commonly downloaded" warning to go away. It's a BS warning to scare people away from using software downloaded from the internet. By now, I figure people either trust us or they don't (after verifying through checksums and signatures that the upload hasn't been tampered with, of course).