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[Windows 8] This file is not regularly downloaded/may not be safe [4.1/4.2.1]

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Kratos:

--- Quote from: killermonkey on November 20, 2012, 02:08:51 am ---Sample of prices:

https://www.symantec.com/popup.jsp?popupid=csc_ms_authenticode_buy&footer=0
http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/
http://www.instantssl.com/code-signing/index.html

Good overview of all the requirements...

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/lh6f/Buying-a-certificate-for-signing-windows-applica.html


It's a big process, and if you are not selling your software or making ad revenue it is in no way worth the cost. The only thing you are buying is "credibility" but in the end it really means nothing. I can sign a virus if I want, it just makes it easier for MS to "pull the plug" by revoking the certificate I signed my virus with.

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What about applications for Linux? Does Linux have some certificate checker?

Proxie:
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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