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0 pointsalexchantavy10y ago0 comments

And then if you have UAC (or whatever it's called) turned on, you'll get a warning that the .exe you're about to run is unsigned, right?

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yuhong10y ago· 1 in thread

It is not an exe. But even without UAC, there is another layer of warnings that has been there since XP SP2 for unsafe file types downloaded from the Internet.

vanderZwan10y ago

Huh, I never thought about that mainly being protection against the use-case of not realising you downloaded/opened an executable, which is actually quite realistic for the slightly less computer-confident. That makes it a much more acceptable feature.

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