Since today, parts of the SWI-Prolog website seem to be recognised as unsafe by Google Safe Browsing. The Google Safe Browsing report for Jan’s PhD (which I am sure will not install anything) can be found here: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=https:%2F%2Fwww.swi-prolog…

That was to be expected. In the days before a CDN when we kept track of downloads there were over 500 per day. Probably more now. If you hit a red alert page it will be less :frowning:

Seems we are blocked again, now all three download pages :frowning: I can’t do much as my internet connection is really slow :frowning:

Does it make sense to delete all the *.EXE files and point to another site ( swi-prolog-win.org ) containing them (with an explanation that some virus scanners incorrectly flag them)?

This will kill swi-prolog. Is there any way others can help with this?

It doesn’t block the whole site, just the folders pointing at the .exe files. Using a new domain will leave the Windows users in the same position. Only the Mac and Source downloads will be unaffected. We get the same by reorganizing the download folders, providing one explicitly for Windows. …

(and the email from swi-prolog.discourse.group that mentioned the download site was marked as spam by gmail) (of course)

Hi Jan, FYI, I just downloaded SWI 8.15. binaries for Mac, and Safari raised a red flag, too. Really annoying, to see how Google wants to take control on us.

Hi new commenter, I just wanted to say that I am seeing it blocking the downloads page in both Chrome and Firefox and it is blocking the downloaded files until you choose to enable them. In order to get the files I had to click to get past the block, download the file and then go to downloads and…

Thanks for reporting. It seems most browsers implement the Google Safe Browsing API, which is at the root of these reports. They base themselves on a number of virus/malware scanners. Such beasts look for patterns in binaries to identify malware. As there are so many of these patterns this leads…

@jan have you tried the google webmaster account? as described on the stopbadware site: If Google is the only data provider blacklisting your site, you can request a malware review in your Google Webmaster Tools dashboard. No account? You can sign up for free . A malware review from Webmaster Tools…

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