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Ruben2776 / PicView

Fast, free and customizable image viewer for Windows 10 and 11.
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Installer triggers Windows SmartScreen block #38

Closed yllekz closed 2 years ago

yllekz commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug PicView's installer gets blocked by Windows SmartScreen.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Run the installer
  2. See the SmartScreen page

Expected behavior The installer should be properly formatted so it does not get stopped by SmartScreen.

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Additional context Windows 10 21H1 19043.1165

Ruben2776 commented 2 years ago

Hi there, thanks for getting in touch.

This isn't something I can fix my own without paying hundreds of dollars for a a code signing certificate... The application is signed as you can see by right clicking PicView-Setup.exe in Explorer and selecting Properties and then Digital Signatures.

You can read more here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ie/microsoft-smartscreen-extended-validation-ev-code-signing-certificates or search for code signing certificate if you're curious, but basically it will go after after enough people have downloaded and installed it.