Developers who download the developer-binary .exe files for Windows may receive
warnings that the programs have no frequency of being downloaded much and may
be dangerous.
This is a "reputation" warning by Internet Explorer, other browsers, and
anti-malware software. It is expected that these files have no meaningful
reputation while in the developer-download state.
It is appropriate to do three things:
1. Ignore the warning.
2. Then download the .asc, .md5, and .sha256 files and use them to verify the
corresponding .exe that you download.
3. After whatever testing you do with these, do not retain the files on your
system if these do not become the release candidate that is approved for
general distribution. That's important. Otherwise, any bugs you might detect
later will not be against the official release and it is confusing because the
filenames will not change.
-- Dennis E. Hamilton
orc...@apache.org
dennis.hamil...@acm.org +1-206-779-9430
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