I tried to download Brave from Brave.com onto my desktop PC and my anti-virus software, Bitdefender Total Security blocked it, claimed it contains a threat. \Downloads\Unconfirmed 513825.crdownload is infected with Gen:Variant.Ulise.139849. The threat has been successfully blocked, your device is s…

@dlguinard , If you’re getting it from the official website – https://brave.com/download – then there’s nothing to worry about and you are free to ignore the threat and proceed with the download.

[image] dlguinard: Is this a threat or can it be ignored, override Bitdefender and continue the download? It’s a false positive. See also: [image] Bitdefender blocks BraveBrowserSetup.exe as infected when downloading! Browser Support Why is the latest version of Bi…

Downloading Brave is blocked by Bitdefender

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Annonymous January 15, 2021, 6:38am 4

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Downloading Brave is blocked by Bitdefender

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