> Microsoft did a good job conditioning people into not running stuff that is not signed Maybe this changed with Windows 8, but till Windows 7, Microsoft did a

> Microsoft did a good job conditioning people into not running stuff that is not signed Maybe this changed with Windows 8, but till Windows 7, Microsoft did a good job conditioning people to completely ignore the signature. Or at least the status of the signature, whether it is trusted or not. Is there a further escalation if there is no signature at all I'm not aware of? If not, there was a great article describing how much work was needed to get the small green checkmark by getting a signature as trusted, and how this did not have any benefit at all (because of styling and design of the dialogue, and UAC asking anyway for confirmation). Of course I don't find that now, but I'm pretty sure it was on HN some time ago, maybe you saw it (probably before Windows 8).