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Is this some new Windows thing? Because the last time I booted Windows and downloaded some pre-built open source Windows program and ran it I got no such warning.

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It's also based on whitelists and popularity counts.

BTW, Chrome has a similar thing, compile an .exe, put it on a personal site, and try to download it.

As some some anti-virus tools. Norton AV used to "clean up" my build folders of exes because it was classifying the newly built exe as viruses because they were not on a whitelist.

I used to develop a java app during an internship on a computer I was not even supposed to be admin on. McAfee AV crapware was randomly deciding that my app .jar was in need of being removed and there was nothing I could do without going against company policy except rebuild and hope this time it would go well.

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