When I tried to send an associate an updated zipped copy of the PicView executable, Gmail blocked it. So I put a copy of the executable on my web site. Low and behold, it was also blocked. He reported ..."/documents/PicView.exe" I get the response you had already warned about: "PicView.exe was blocked because it could harm your device" .. no options offered like "proceed anyway".
When I investigated on the server, I found this request "GET /documents/PicView.exe - 200 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/91.0.4472.114+Safari/537.36". The server sent the file, so it must have been something else that blocked the response. The browser is Firefox, but the rest of the request is unfamiliar to me. When I questioned him on it, he said that he used Google search to find the Web site, and then added the file information.
When I used Google search to do the same thing, hovering the mouse above the link showed the proper URL, but when I copied the link location, I found this:
"https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjK4ZOLy-DxAhUNgp4KHVT_BssQFnoECAIQAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yellowhead.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0aNs9vrMGkVfm6jHXgXFeG "
This tells me that the request was actually routed through Google, and that makes me very uncomfortable. Hopefully someone can tell us what this URL really does.
J.A. Coutts
When I investigated on the server, I found this request "GET /documents/PicView.exe - 200 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/91.0.4472.114+Safari/537.36". The server sent the file, so it must have been something else that blocked the response. The browser is Firefox, but the rest of the request is unfamiliar to me. When I questioned him on it, he said that he used Google search to find the Web site, and then added the file information.
When I used Google search to do the same thing, hovering the mouse above the link showed the proper URL, but when I copied the link location, I found this:
"https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjK4ZOLy-DxAhUNgp4KHVT_BssQFnoECAIQAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yellowhead.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0aNs9vrMGkVfm6jHXgXFeG "
This tells me that the request was actually routed through Google, and that makes me very uncomfortable. Hopefully someone can tell us what this URL really does.
J.A. Coutts