Microsoft Defender on Windows 11.23H2 flags version 2.02 with "Unknown Publisher"

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GraXpert is an astronomical image processing program for extracting and removing gradients from the background of your astrophotos.

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Microsoft Defender on Windows 11.23H2 flags version 2.02 with "Unknown Publisher" #105

Open Zormin opened 9 months ago

Zormin commented 9 months ago

When starting GraXpert-win64.exe - Microsoft Defender blocks the execution with - "Unknown publisher"

I also tried the msi version: https://github.com/schmelly/Background_extraction/releases/download/2.0.3/GraXpert-2.0.3-win64.msi - same result.

Is this as expected?

schmelly commented 8 months ago

Dear @Zormin

unfortunately this is to be expected, yes. To avoid such a warning on Windows, we would have to digitally sign our release packages. However, we would have to pay some hundred dollars per year for the required code signing certificate. As GraXpert is a hobby for us we did not invest in this so far.

Best regards and CS David