RemoteUtilities is my favorite remote access software.

But there was a problem while downloading its “Agent“.

I debugged that problem and posted a workaround on their forum. I’ve quoted it below:

Downloading agent.exe in Firefox results in: blocked may contain a virus or spyware

john kumpf Posts: 5 Joined: 11/03/2014

#1 12/03/2014 20:35:55 Firefox silently did not download agent.exe file from http://www.remoteutilities.com/download/ The link to the file was: http://www.remoteutilities.com/download/agent.exe I had to do “Show all downloads” to see this error message. The error message was: Quote Blocked: may contain a virus or spyware I worked around this problem by reading this article: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/11/19/bypass-firefoxs-blocked-may-contain-a-virus-or-spyware-message/ What i did: in firefox Type “about:config” in address bar (without the quotes); hit return. Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Type “safe” into the search box (without the quotes). Double click the item “browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled” to turn it from true to false. Then i was able to download the agent.exe program.