Chrome blocking ActivityWatch installer

davidfraser · June 28, 2021, 4:54pm

I downloaded the latest ActivityWatch 0.11 installer for Windows, and got the “activitywatch-v0.11…exe is dangerous, so Chrome has blocked it.” error from Chrome:

I know I can work around it, but presume the project doesn’t want this and so thought I’d let you know…

ErikBjare · July 5, 2021, 10:10am

This has been a long-standing issue that happens whenever we make a new release. It tends to sort itself out after a while, once anti-virus vendors realize it’s safe.

You can read more here:

github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch

Submit false positives to antivirus vendors

opened 03:10PM - 21 Mar 18 UTC

az0

help wanted improves: security

I saw in past issues (e.g., #140 ) that people reported that the software is fl…agged by antivirus software, and that this is reasonable estimate based on the heuristic of a keylogger. The latest Windows zip is [flagged by 9 scanners](https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/320a3ed29ee87fa9de5b497f396f597ce51b74d91a5bbb9673d68ad5b7cbdb8b/detection). Would you please consider contacting the vendors to whitelist it? There is a contact list on [techsupportalert](https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-report-malware-or-false-positives-multiple-antivirus-vendors.htm) and another list is available if you email VirusTotal.