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Do you have any more info about this? I've downloaded random executables from a lot of unpopular (and in some cases, newly created by me) sites and never seen anything pop up in chrome warning me not to download it.


Information is scarce on this (a little bit of security through obscurity).

Here is theirs blog post introducing the feature in 2012: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2012/02/faster-browsing-safer-...

> Chrome also does checks on executable files (like ".exe" and ".msi" files). If the executable doesn't match a whitelist, Chrome checks with Google for more information, such as whether the website you're accessing hosts a high number of malicious downloads.

At the time I looked at the implementation in the Chrome source code, but I remember that it took me a while to locate it.




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