• Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    MS thinks the new Teams is a virus. In Edge it asks if you’re sure you want to keep the download, it could be harmful.

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      10 months ago

      Edge has no way to find out that the random .exe you just downloaded is Microsoft Teams and has not been tampered with. It would be reckless to not warn the user about downloading files from the web.

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        10 months ago

        It came from their site, directly from the link inside the personal teams splash page… Can’t fingerprint it? Or read the md5?

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          10 months ago

          What would they compare the MD5 against? This would mean having all the MD5 files of all the software on all the internet baked right into edge. Or they would have to configure (probably multiple) repositories of known good MD5s to check against. All that’s quite a lot of work just to save you from having to click “Yes” once more.

          If you really want to only use software that MS deems safe, why not use the Microsoft store instead of downloading the software yourself?