"unknown publisher" under Windows Vista

[Bill Marriott]

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