"unknown publisher" under Windows Vista

Chris Sheffield cmsheffield at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 13:52:37 EDT 2007


Ah, good info Bill. Thanks.

On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Marriott wrote:

> Chris,
>
>> After building my standalone, which is sort of a launcher app for  
>> my  main
>> installer, and running it under Windows Vista, I get the  security  
>> warning
>> that tells me the publisher for the exe is unknown.
>
> Unfortunately, applications you author with Rev cannot simply  
> "inherit" the
> signature. Rev's installer is "known" because it is digitally  
> "signed" by
> Revolution in accordance with Microsoft's guidelines. Your  
> standalone is a
> brand-new program as far as Vista is concerned. And rightly so,  
> because
> anyone could use a programming tool like Rev to write a program  
> that wreaks
> havoc.
>
> In order to sign your code, you need to have a digital certificate  
> from
> Verisign, and then you need to go through the code signing process as
> outlined here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/security/authcode/signing.asp
>
>
>
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