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When I attempted to download I got a warning that this type of file could harm my computer. I don't understand this.

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craftysue55
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I attempted to download Firefox and a warning came to the bottom left of my screen saying, "This type of file can harm your computer. Do you want to deep Firefox...p7.0.1exe anyway? I don't understand why I would get this warning. I had used Firefox in the past but switched to Google Chrome when Zynga support told me it would work better in the game I was playing on Facebook.

I attempted to download Firefox and a warning came to the bottom left of my screen saying, "This type of file can harm your computer. Do you want to deep Firefox...p7.0.1exe anyway? I don't understand why I would get this warning. I had used Firefox in the past but switched to Google Chrome when Zynga support told me it would work better in the game I was playing on Facebook.

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Chrome automatically puts that message when you download any exe file. As long as you downloaded from mozilla.org it's safe to open

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Chrome automatically puts that message when you download any exe file. As long as you downloaded from mozilla.org it's safe to open

craftysue55
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Thank you SO much for your help fmdeveloper. I feel much better about doing the download now. Appreciate your time!  :)