Last update: June 17, 2026 tl;dr: Download apps can taint a file originating from the web so that other apps will handle it more carefully. Background To help protect the user and their device, Windows and its applications will often treat files originating from the Internet more cautiously than files generated locally. The Windows SecurityContinue reading “Downloads and the Mark-of-the-Web”
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Authenticode and ClickOnce
On my old IEInternals blog, I posted a fair bit about using Authenticode to sign your programs so that their origins could be identified and to avoid triggering warnings from SmartScreen. My last post on that blog before Microsoft took it away was about using a hardware token to improve security of your certificate’s privateContinue reading “Authenticode and ClickOnce”