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rudyrednose

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Windows Warning
« on: November 11, 2014, 04:40:19 pm »
Minor problem: Windows Smartscreen complains (on Windows 8.1pro) about the download.
Sorry, I do not have the exact text on hand, I bypassed quickly the warning, before I thought about flagging it here...

Something about uncommon program download from JRiver.
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Re: Windows Warning
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2014, 06:00:11 am »
That was probably for the new WDM driver.  It's safe.
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Re: Windows Warning
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2014, 07:27:08 am »
I don't think that was the WDM driver, maybe I'm mistaken but I think SmartScreen checks the downloaded file against a database of "safe" files and if its not recognized it flags it as possibly unsafe. Guilty until proven otherwise I suppose. It's just another trick to gather data to profile people as far as I'm concerned.

I don't know how to get the file in that database though to have SmartScreen detect it as safe.
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