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  1. I'm downloading from the Piriform website, of course. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download > Download button under CCleaner Free which is a link to > http://download.cnet.com/CCleaner/3000-18512_4-10315544.html?part=dl-&subj=dl&tag=button > Download Now button which attempts to download ccsetup526.exe from > http://files.download​now-1.com/s/software​/15/68/79/90/ccsetup​526.exe?token=1486... at which point McAfee SiteAdvisor says "Whoa! This site may be risky to visit ..." The site report is at > https://www.mcafee.com/threat-intelligence/site/default.aspx?url=http://files.downloadnow-1.com/s/software/15/68/79/90/ccsetup526.exe?token=1486082677_e8076e667c0a9d1553ae632a35ad50dc&fileName=ccsetup526.exe The report gives this a risk level of "High" (their highest level). If I proceed to Save the file anyway, I get a further warning "Woah[sic], that download is dangerous! We found there might be viruses, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs in the file you are trying to download. Filename: ccsetup526.exe. Domain: files.downloadnow-1.com. If I click on "Accept the Risk" and continue, it proceeds to download ccsetup526.exe (8,813,488 bytes) digitally signed by Piriform Ltd. on 21 Dec 2016 (SHA1 and SHA256). A separate scan using McAfee Viruscan of the downloaded file itself did not result in any further warnings, so it's apparently the downloadnow-1.com site that's triggering the warning, and not a detected virus in the file itself. So while it seems like a false positive, I thought I'd post this nonetheless since it's strange to see (I almost never get false positives by McAfee WebAdvisor on downloading executables). Any comments?
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