Windows 8 SmartScreen Filter

[cartman005]

MusicBee currently does not pass the Windows 8 SmartScreen filter. This might be alarming for new users. I don't know what the cost of getting a CA certificate is but it might be valuable to look into.

Also, it would be cool if MusicBee was in the Windows Store!

[greenday1987]

How much does a CA certificate cost? Maybe consider donating an appropriate amount towards it if it's important to you

[Steven]

i recall reading that its not a requirement to get a certificate and that eventually an app will make enough points so it no longer raises that dialog.
When i get time i will confirm that

[cartman005]

i recall reading that its not a requirement to get a certificate and that eventually an app will make enough points so it no longer raises that dialog.
When i get time i will confirm that

I finally found a couple of articles about how SmartScreen works. You are right that you can build reputation over time.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/22/smartscreen-174-application-reputation-building-reputation.aspx
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20120302/windows-8s-application-smartscreen-speed-bump-for-desktop-apps/

And apparently the EV certificate costs $499/year haha so nevermind about that.

[Bee-liever]

And those digital certificates have been so reliable in recent times:

https://windowssecrets.com/patch-watch/flame-malware-and-security-certificate-issues/
https://windowssecrets.com/known-issues/adobe-security-certificates-compromised/

[Zak]

SmartScreen seems like a fairly blatant method of forcing developers (all developers) to distribute their software via the Microsoft app store. Because an application installed via any other means is obviously a hard drive formatting, credit card skimming, eyeball exploding virus, right?

I can see this OS sanctioned FUD killing a lot of hobbyist freeware projects. 

[greenday1987]

I still can't see W8 taking off as a standard laptop/desktop OS so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Where I live they're marketing it with tuitions on how to use it. W7 will continue to be the 'standard' OS for sometime I think. I'm derailing the thread now though so back on topic..