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LPT: put your executable binary on GitHub/GitLab/SourceForge/... These locations are whitelisted since they have a ton of fresh binaries. Malware writers use t

• stordoff 5y ago
  Not sure this works. Just grabbed a build of WhyNotWin11[1] released 20 hours ago, and I get "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk." [1] https://github.com/rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11 https://github.com/rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11 (used for test as I thought I remembered seeing this with a build from earlier this week)
• laurent123456 5y ago
  I don't think that works, as I had an app hosted on GitHub, a signed one actually, and it was still showing the SmartScreen warning at first. It took a few days to go away.
• ronsor 5y ago
  Well that's actually pretty concerning, and it only shows how broken these "security" "features" really are.
  • flohofwoe 5y ago
    No, this definitely doesn't work, random installers and executables downloaded from github.com definitely show the SmartScreen popup.
    • jrockway 5y ago
      That's my experience as well. I think that after enough people install something, Microsoft starts trusting it, so it's usually fine for a major release of a popular package. Nightly builds of less popular packages? I always get the popups. (Although oddly, not on any of my projects that I release Windows binaries for...)