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In Windows 7 when launching these downloaded applications, you get the following notification:
In Windows 8, SmartScreen will only notify you when you run an application that has not yet established a reputation and therefore is a higher risk:
The user experience for applications with an established reputation is simple and clean: you just click and run, removing the prompt you would have seen in Windows 7.
Windows 8 uses the SmartScreen filter to perform an application reputation check, and it now does system wide (not just when downloading programs with Internet Explorer like it did before).
In Windows 7 when launching these downloaded applications, you get the following notification:
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In Windows 8, SmartScreen will only notify you when you run an application that has not yet established a reputation and therefore is a higher risk:
View attachment 61743
The user experience for applications with an established reputation is simple and clean: you just click and run, removing the prompt you would have seen in Windows 7.
Source: Scroll down to "Microsoft SmartScreen for Internet Explorer and now for Windows too":
Protecting you from malware - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
yesThe application itself is digitally signed by the developer. So even if it was released today it would pass.
Test it? Sure, go find some torrent app or something compiled by someone not known by Microsoft as a developer and run it.
Got a good backup?
thanksbasically it says I dont know this, do you want to continue, thats where the livewire interface has to make a decision