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jacquesh / foo_openlyrics

An open-source lyric display panel for foobar2000
MIT License
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Openlyrics has been blocked by Smart app control #293

Closed Sentsuki closed 10 months ago

Sentsuki commented 10 months ago

It shows "Some features of foobar2000 may not work because we can't confirm who published foo_openlyrics.dll that the app tried to load."

Refer to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/smart-app-control-has-blocked-part-of-this-app-0729fff1-48bf-4b25-aa97-632fe55ccca2, maybe need a signature.

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jacquesh commented 10 months ago

To my understanding signing things (the only way to properly prevent this that I'm aware of) costs a significant amount of money. So that's not happening anytime soon. foobar itself isn't signed, it's just been around for long enough and is used widely enough that MS knows it isn't malware.

I assume there is some way to tell Windows that openlyrics isn't malware (try checking the properties of the extension dll and see if there's an "Unblock" button or similar?), so I'd recommend doing that as a workaround.