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What's up with WinPatrol?
Curt:
Google has a False Positive on our WinPrivacy installer. Yet, if you look on Virus Total (A site owned by Google), you will find our software is clean.
-WinPrivacy
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The problem is that the group responsible for detecting “Potentially Unwanted Programs” is sequestered from the outside world. There is absolutely no way we’ve been able to find to contact them and from communication with people in the security industry we are not alone in being falsely accused by Google with no way to appeal.
Even using Google’s Web Master Tools does not give a software vendor a way of appealing a false positive.-WinPrivacy
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Because of this false positive, we have moved the WinPrivacy installer to our site at winpatroltogo.com to prevent customers from being blocked from our PLUS data.
However before you can download, you will need to disable the over zealous security in Chrome and regrettably now in Firefox as well (starting with V40) first.
You can disable the warning messages in Chrome as follows:
Open Chrome and go into Settings by clicking on the icon upper right that looks like 3 horizontal lines
Scroll to the bottom and click on Advanced
Uncheck the box “Enable phishing & malware protection
That’s it.
-WinPrivacy
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You can disable the warning messages in Firefox as follows:
Click on the three horizontal lines located in the upper-right of the screen
Select Options
Next, click on “Security” in the left hand menu
In the General section, uncheck “Block reported attack sites”
We are sorry for this inconvenience, but in the end this is because of Google and their insistence to hide behind the Internet and automation and refusal to interact with human beings. If you do not like this inconvenience, uninstall Chrome and uninstall Firefox.-WinPrivacy
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Jibz:
Thanks for the replies everybody :-*.
Innuendo:
However before you can download, you will need to disable the over zealous security in Chrome and regrettably now in Firefox as well (starting with V40) first.
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One more reason to not use those browsers.
Curt:
it all depends on various settings; I have not had any problems downloading WinPatrol or WinPrivacy, using Firefox 40.0.2
Joe Hone:
I've been trying the Slimjet version of Chrome for several months and it has no issues with WinPatrol or WinPrivacy downloads/updates.
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