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We didn’t form a company yet, we’re just two guys in a partnership ready to launch our app. But my avast (and, most probably, all other anti-virus systems) advices not to download the app since it comes from an Unknown Publisher. Is there an easy trick to bypass that?
Searching for an individual certificate, I came over http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms537361(v=vs.85).aspx (our app is coded in VB.NET)
“The value of an individual software publishing certificate is in the information it provides to users so they can decide whether or not to download the code. Knowing who authored the code, and[color=#b22222] that the bits have not been altered from the time the code was signed to the present, is reassuring information.”
If it’s about ‘[color=#b22222]bits not being altered from the time the code was signed to the present‘ the software publishing certificate is worthless in our case (and in each instance where software needs to be updated). I still don’t understand as to how thousands of penniless kids -- that obviously never formed a company -- publish their apps (and there are tens of millions of downloads of that kind of apps!).
What does it take to (A) make Joe comfy with downloading our app despite his anti-virus crying wolf or, even better (B) please the anti-virus to the point it’ll stop crying?
Searching for an individual certificate, I came over http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms537361(v=vs.85).aspx (our app is coded in VB.NET)
“The value of an individual software publishing certificate is in the information it provides to users so they can decide whether or not to download the code. Knowing who authored the code, and[color=#b22222] that the bits have not been altered from the time the code was signed to the present, is reassuring information.”
If it’s about ‘[color=#b22222]bits not being altered from the time the code was signed to the present‘ the software publishing certificate is worthless in our case (and in each instance where software needs to be updated). I still don’t understand as to how thousands of penniless kids -- that obviously never formed a company -- publish their apps (and there are tens of millions of downloads of that kind of apps!).
What does it take to (A) make Joe comfy with downloading our app despite his anti-virus crying wolf or, even better (B) please the anti-virus to the point it’ll stop crying?
