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Windows Installation produces warning by Windows Defender Smartscreen

See original GitHub issue

Description

Steps to reproduce

Run .exe installer on Windows 10

Expected behavior: Installation should start

Actual behavior: Installation is prevented by Windows Defender

A dialog pops up with the following warning message:

Windows protected your PC Windows Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.

Versions

Mark Text: marktext-setup-0.12.20.exe
OS: Windows 10 Enterprise (ver. 1803, build 17134.112)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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fxhacommented, Jun 18, 2018

Thanks @ayoayco,

this is a known problem because we do not have a code signing certificate for windows. So we have to ask @Jocs whether he was willing to buy such a certificate. I think it costs around 300-500$/€ per year. But if you don’t trust us, you can build Mark Text yourself. At the moment there’s nothing we can do about it.

The same applies to the macOS certificate too which will be signed before version 1.0.

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ayoaycocommented, Jun 28, 2018

No problem. I just thought I should report it, not knowing it was already a known issue. Thanks for the informative responses.

It’s a very good product. Cheers!