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"Publisher: Unknown" field of the go-ipfs "Windows Defender" prompt

See original GitHub issue

Description

When launching/enabling IFPS on Windows via the onboarding for the first time, you’ll get the following Windows Defender prompt:

However, if you take a look at go-ipfs_v0.7.0_windows-amd64, you’ll notice that its signed:

Steps to Reproduce

download/install https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.21.7
load https://dweb.link/ipfs/bafybeiemxf5abjwjbikoz4mc3a3dla6ual3jsgpdr4cjr3oz3evfyavhwq/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.html
click on Enable IPFS

Actual result:

Probably shouldn’t be prompting users.

Expected result:

Shouldn’t be prompting the user similar to Tor.

Reproduces how often:

100% reproducible using the above STR.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.21.7 Chromium: 88.0.4324.87 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | dd01ff8f58c65af81127ad5c105c79d5b571d8f3-refs/branch-heads/4324@{#1702}
OS | Windows 10 OS Version 2009 (Build 19042.746)

Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? No
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? N/A
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? N/A

Miscellaneous Information:

CCing @bbondy @brave/legacy_qa @rebron

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

bbondycommented, Aug 5, 2021

I believe Lidel is in the process of signing the IPFS binaries for the next go-ipifs release, so I think this will be improved after that.

2reactions

kjozwiakcommented, Aug 13, 2021

Still appearing with go-ipfs/0.9.1. I know @bbondy mentioned that we’re in the process of signing the IPFS binaries, but figured I would mention that it’s still happening in go-ipfs/0.9.1 in case users/anyone else runs into this on their machine. Example:

ipfs

This time it actually happened on my personal work desktop which had Brave installed a million times before.

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