{"id":1230,"date":"2014-12-11T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2014-12-11T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T02:51:08","slug":"remoteutilities-agent-exe-download-problem-in-mozilla-firefox-false-positive-malware-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/remoteutilities-agent-exe-download-problem-in-mozilla-firefox-false-positive-malware-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"RemoteUtilities agent.exe download problem in Mozilla Firefox : false-positive malware detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- CAN NOT USE TinyMCE aka VISUAL TAB BECAUSE IT REMOVES STYLE TAGS SINCE 3.9 !!!! --><br \/>\n<!-- CAN NOT HAVE ANY BLANK LINES IN STYLE; WP ADDS PARAGRAPH!!! --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cygdrive\/c\/a_no_backup\/dl\/M_M\/usb_drive_copy\/tech\/blog\/rut_ff_dl_mlw\/post.html --><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">@import url(https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/css\/wp_blog_fixes.css);<\/style>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\" title=\"RemoteUtilities - http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\">RemoteUtilities<\/a> is my favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/remote-access-login-comparisons\/\" title=\"Blog : Remote Access \/ LogIn Comparisons - https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/remote-access-login-comparisons\/\">remote access software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there was a problem while downloading its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/download\/agent.exe\" title=\"RemoteUtilities Agent.exe download - http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/download\/agent.exe\">Agent<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I debugged that problem and posted a workaround on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/support\/forums\/forum1\/topic387\/\" title=\"RemoteUtilities Forum Topic - http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/support\/forums\/forum1\/topic387\/\">forum<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve quoted it below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wpfix_longquote\">\n<table border=1 id=\"message1496\" class=\"forum-post-table forum-post-first forum-post-odd \" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Downloading agent.exe in Firefox results in: blocked may contain a virus or spyware<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"forum-cell-user\" style=\"vertical-align:top\">\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/support\/forums\/user\/2122\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">john kumpf<\/a><br \/>\n        Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/support\/forums\/user\/2122\/post\/all\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">5<\/a><br \/>\n        Joined: 11\/03\/2014\n      <\/td>\n<td class=\"forum-cell-post\">\n<div style=\"float: right;\"><a title=\"Link to this post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/support\/forums\/messages\/forum1\/topic387\/message1496\/#message1496\" rel=\"nofollow\">#1<\/a><\/div>\n<p>        12\/03\/2014 20:35:55 <\/p>\n<p>        Firefox silently did not download agent.exe file from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/download\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        The link to the file was: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/download\/agent.exe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.remoteutilities.com\/download\/agent.exe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        I had to do &#8220;Show all downloads&#8221; to see this error message.<\/p>\n<p>        The error message was:<\/p>\n<table class=\"forum-quote\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Quote<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>Blocked: may contain a virus or spyware<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>        I worked around this problem by reading this article:<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2014\/11\/19\/bypass-firefoxs-blocked-may-contain-a-virus-or-spyware-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2014\/11\/19\/bypass-firefoxs-blocked-may-contain-a-virus-or-spyware-message\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        What i did: in firefox<\/p>\n<p>        Type &#8220;about:config&#8221; in address bar (without the quotes); hit return.<br \/>\n        Click the &#8220;I&#8217;ll be careful, I promise!&#8221; button.<br \/>\n        Type &#8220;safe&#8221; into the search box (without the quotes).<br \/>\n        Double click the item &#8220;browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled&#8221; to turn it from true to false.<\/p>\n<p>        Then i was able to download the agent.exe program.\n      <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RemoteUtilities is my favorite remote access software. But there was a problem while downloading its &#8220;Agent&#8220;. I debugged that problem and posted a workaround on their forum. I&#8217;ve quoted it below: Downloading agent.exe in Firefox results in: blocked may contain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/remoteutilities-agent-exe-download-problem-in-mozilla-firefox-false-positive-malware-detection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}