Google Chrome is blocking Quick Access Popup See the instructions below (screen capture is in French I translated to the best of my knowledge). If you trust me and want to run QAP, you can prevent it: launch Windows Defender (type “Defender” in the search/launch bar) and open the History tab. Until any new version of Quick Access Popup is recognized as a legit software by Windows Defender, this protection software could delete the QAP setup file when you try to install it. Windows Defender is blocking Quick Access Popup Īt least, I know I’m not the only small developer facing this issue…

Needless to say – all these virus-related email messages that I receive every day are a big headache and require me to waste my time on answering/handling them, instead of adding new features to my utilities and updating my site. More about this issue in this post from another independent developer: Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers.

See also this discussion on the page on this subject for my older app Folders Popup. See this list many major Anti-Virus companies websites where you can ask to test and clear Quick Access Popup. Also, you can probably go to your software website and report Quick Access Popup as a good app to add to the whitelist database. All others declare Quick Access Popup as clean and safe! If your protection software is blocking it, please see if you can approve ( whitelist) Quick Access Popup in the configuration of your software. In the case of Quick Access Popup, between 0% and 4% of the various detection softwares can produce such false alerts. This may result in occasional false malware alerts. To allow good applications to work, they maintain a whitelist of trusted apps.

But, more often, protection software have a more aggressive approach: they block any app that could cause damage based on various criteria.

Some protection programs block known malware and frequently update a blacklist database to catch these apps before they can do damage.

To prevent bad programs from taking control or infiltrate your PC, protection programs use two protection approaches. But, sometime, they can also make collateral damages and block legit software like Quick Access Popup. Protection software block malware applications that could harm your PC. Analysis by for QAP setup file and for portable ZIP fileĪll you need to know about anti-virus false positives (false alerts)…

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