Dealing with Microsoft's SmartScreen Filter Part 2: Getting a Code Signing Certificate

This is part 2 of dealing with Microsoft’s SmartScreen Filter.  You can find the first part here.

I figured the best way to deal with SmartScreen filter was to get Mini-Compressor Windows 7 certified.  Windows 8 had just been released but I figured if I could get Windows 7 certified upgrading to Windows 8 certification shouldn’t be a problem.  At the time I had not tested Mini-Compressor on Windows 8 but I had done lots of testing on Windows 7.

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Dealing with Microsoft's SmartScreen Filter

If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding!  How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!

- Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall

Microsoft’s SmartScreen Filter is the bane of small Independent Software Vendors (ISV) everywhere.  Maybe that is a little harsh, and I have no proof that SmartScreen Filter is a problem for other ISVs, but it has, and as of this writing, still is a problem for Saturday Morning Productions.  Besides, that first sentence is a good sensationalist sentence, perfect for a newspaper article or blog post.

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