Windows Defender keeps a log of quarantined items for instance, and you may find the reason why a download has been flagged with the "failed - virus detected" message when you open it. The only option that you have is to figure out what happened, and the only way to do that is check the history of the antivirus software for that. Check your Windows Internet security settings to see which types of files you're able to download and why that file was blocked. Windows users: The file you tried to download was removed by the Windows Attachment Manager.
To fix the error, you can check your virus scanning software for more details about why that file was blocked. These errors mean that your virus scanning software might have blocked you from downloading a file. "Virus scan failed" and "Virus detected" errors Google highlights this on a help page that users can open who encounter the issue: Google Chrome uses an internal blocklist feature - which other browsers such as Firefox make use of as well - to block certain downloads automatically.Ĭhrome itself offers no option to restore the download or allow it once it has been flagged by a third-party application. This highlights already that this is not Chrome's doing but that of antivirus software running on the system. A common description is "anti-virus software detected a virus". If you check the download log, by loading chrome://downloads/ in a tab in the browser, you may get additional information about the error. The error message appears after a moment, and you may also get notifications from the operating system or third-party software that something is not right. While you may see that the file has been 100% transferred already to the local device, Chrome is still showing the progress dialog. One indicator that something is not right is that it takes some time to complete the download.
The Failed - Virus Detected notification prevents that from happening. It highlights the transfer speed and also status information about the download itself.Ĭompleted downloads can be run with a double-click from there for instance. Chrome displays the download progress of files in a status bar at the bottom of the browser window.
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