A ticket has been open in the support section of SourceForge. There is an answer. We have to wait a bit more.
Only the administrators can use the Google Search Console, so the issue might come back, unless I take drastic measures such as no longer releasing the 32-bit version...
I also started to search for an alternative to SourceForge, but... I still have found nothing. I see no alternative that does not require Git and does not moderate in advance the projects (a software that creates such an alert from the main browsers is obviously rejected).
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I presume Google just submit everything to virustotal.com and then they believe the results they get!
Best to just ignore it and carry on. You'd have no end of work trying to report the false positives to some of those mysterious weird AV vendors that Google sees fit to include in virustotal.com.
Users have to learn that anti-virus vendors just don't care about small low volume software authors and that users can safely ignore warnings and just make a mental note never to use that particular anti-virus.
As an aside I think we are reaching the end of the era where AV made a PC more secure and now the need to create software that doesn't upset any of the many AV sofwares out there is actually in some cases preventing implementation of new security features in Windows software.
What happens if you just put your software on this site inside password protected ZIP files?
Last edit: Brian Gregory 2017-02-17
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I completely agree about the antiviruses. Now, antiviruses themselves are a threat because, like a virus, they regularly destroy legitimate softwares.
The problem is this, displayed by Chrome and Firefox. By default, Chrome even prevents the download of the installer.
Another consequence is that the page of SourceForge for ImDisk Toolkit is no longer indexed by Google.
For now, I think of putting the 64-bit installer as the default download and, as you suggest, to put the 32-bit installer in a password protected archive.
Google says: "Reviews for sites infected with malware require a few days to process." It's quite approximate but I still prefer to wait before uploading something.
Last edit: v77 2017-02-17
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An encrypted archive is automatically flagged as malware by SourceForge.
For now, I will just put an incorrect, but easy to reconstruct, link to TinyUpload.com in the main page. Users will find it easily and this should be enough to remove all risk related to the Google Safe Browsing issue.
Last edit: v77 2017-03-03
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All the executables have been removed yesterday. Google Safe Browsing has just been updated, and still reports that https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ contains harmful programs.
I will still try to remove a few other things.
Last edit: v77 2018-09-23
Hi there!
Are there any news? When will imdisk-toolkit approximately be available again?
A ticket has been open in the support section of SourceForge. There is an answer. We have to wait a bit more.
Only the administrators can use the Google Search Console, so the issue might come back, unless I take drastic measures such as no longer releasing the 32-bit version...
I also started to search for an alternative to SourceForge, but... I still have found nothing. I see no alternative that does not require Git and does not moderate in advance the projects (a software that creates such an alert from the main browsers is obviously rejected).
I presume Google just submit everything to virustotal.com and then they believe the results they get!
Best to just ignore it and carry on. You'd have no end of work trying to report the false positives to some of those mysterious weird AV vendors that Google sees fit to include in virustotal.com.
Users have to learn that anti-virus vendors just don't care about small low volume software authors and that users can safely ignore warnings and just make a mental note never to use that particular anti-virus.
As an aside I think we are reaching the end of the era where AV made a PC more secure and now the need to create software that doesn't upset any of the many AV sofwares out there is actually in some cases preventing implementation of new security features in Windows software.
What happens if you just put your software on this site inside password protected ZIP files?
Last edit: Brian Gregory 2017-02-17
I completely agree about the antiviruses. Now, antiviruses themselves are a threat because, like a virus, they regularly destroy legitimate softwares.
The problem is this, displayed by Chrome and Firefox. By default, Chrome even prevents the download of the installer.
Another consequence is that the page of SourceForge for ImDisk Toolkit is no longer indexed by Google.
For now, I think of putting the 64-bit installer as the default download and, as you suggest, to put the 32-bit installer in a password protected archive.
Google says: "Reviews for sites infected with malware require a few days to process." It's quite approximate but I still prefer to wait before uploading something.
Last edit: v77 2017-02-17
Just noticed that the homepage is no longer marked as unsafe by Chrome and is back on Google search! Hooray!
Yes, I noticed the change yesterday. Now, I have to make sure that this issue doesn't come back.
An encrypted archive is automatically flagged as malware by SourceForge.
For now, I will just put an incorrect, but easy to reconstruct, link to TinyUpload.com in the main page. Users will find it easily and this should be enough to remove all risk related to the Google Safe Browsing issue.
Last edit: v77 2017-03-03