andrewnz-nz created an issue #477:
As above, Firefox and Google Chrome are marking all recent source archives as malware and by default stopping downloads.
I started a bug report here for Firefox but as Google Chrome is doing the same there does seem to be a new file in the archive somewhere between version 3.20 and 3.38 that is being detected as malware.
It's possible/probable that real time antivirus heuristics are doing the same, although only VirusTotal antivirus makes a detection (which is mostly signature based.)
This is files downloaded from https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/ . It doesn't seem to happen when downloaded from htps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/ , are these files identical?