That malware issue is not the only issue that could happen with Docker Desktop. I don’t get why everyone thinks recently they had that issue. The error message has nothing to do with it. We had another topic which I closed, because people started to discuss the malware warning there and I wanted to make sure new users see the link to the other issue.
I cannot be absolutely sure that this error message is not a consequence of the modifications made to fix the other issue, but it is not that issue. Please, read the topic I linked above. Hopefully it can help. If not, I can only recommend that I always do.
- Follow the official documentation on
docs.docker.com - Make sure you downloaded the correct installer for your architecture. People often downloaded the one for amd64 when they had arm64.
- Make sure the browser finished downloading. You can try it from another browser
- Check the filesize. If it i too small, you probably downloaded a wrong file. It can happen if something is wrong on Docker’s side. In that case you can report it to Docker on GitHub
Note that brew is not the official way to install Docker Desktop and if it fails to properly download the file, you won’t be able to install or run it.
update:
I heard about this again from other sources too, so there might be somthing new happening.