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Todd1561 / TANWindowMgr

Reposition windows at the click of the mouse
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make it trusted by AV #15

Closed rubaboo closed 3 years ago

rubaboo commented 3 years ago

Without admin rights it's not possible to override the antivirus and run the program.

Todd1561 commented 3 years ago

I just use built-in Windows Defender and have never had a problem, so I'm not sure what your particular software is complaining about. From my research there's at least a couple issues; 1) my app isn't signed with a Code Signing Certificate and 2) many AV apps use a 'trusted' list that gets built after many people use the app and report it as safe.

The code signing certs are not cheap and given this app generates -$5,000/year (e.g. generates nothing, only costs money) that's just never going to happen, sorry. Even if I got a certificate I'd probably never pass the second test since this is such a low-use app. My suggestion would be to add the app to whatever whitelist your AV program has to just bypass any checking. Again, I don't know anything about your particular AV but I imagine they all have this kind of functionality.

Thanks for checking out the software!

Todd