Program Download - IE CHROME - “is not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous.”

Question

I have an installer for my C# program, I uploaded it to my website, but whenever I try to download it in chrome or IE, I get \"MY FILE* is not commonly down

Answer 1

I just had the problem (again) today

file is not commonly downloaded (keep/discart)

I made many tests including moving the zip on another server, re-compressing the zip file with another software, etc. I concluded that Google Chrome didn't like that zip file contained an .url shortcut file in it (a link to my site). I removed the .url from my zip and then it worked without the download error.

I had to change content inside ~5000 zip files on two sites, nice one Google.

BTW: the site is not listed as malware anywhere and files inside the zips are mostly .psd on one site and and .swf on another site, no exe or anything.

And previously when I had this problem it was because of some bad header(s) set when downloading the file.