- Sep 8, 2019
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I just have to ask because it's the first time happening here so it made me cautious, but when trying to open the .exe I get a warning from Defender Smart screen about protecting me. Did nobody else get this? Downloaded the windows 64 bit version from nopy
To add to this: SmartScreen is basically just security theater. Microsoft took something that was somewhat useful at protecting against new threats in a web browser and decided to apply in an extremely heavy-handed way to the entire operating system. Basically, if an application was downloaded from the Internet and hasn't been used by "enough people" (which basically includes any piece of smaller, independently produced software), they raise a red flag and require the user to approve it. There are some other conditions (such as the download site having a reputation for malicious downloads) but in practice you rarely see SmartScreen prompts related to that.Its not dangerous at all, I get the warnings too lol and I just brush them off and Im fine
The system is very inconsistently applied and throws so many false flags that it's basically useless, IMO.