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[FortressCaulfield]

How do we deal with this warning windows pops up that makes everybody think the game's a virus?

I tried googling the issue and got quite a lot of nonsense about several different kinds of microsoft accounts and licenses including needing to sign up for their AI platform.

Yet I don't get the message when playing many other people's ags games. What am I missing?

[Crimson Wizard]

There's a sticky thread with related discussion:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/advanced-technical-forum/setting-publisher-and-authenticode-signature-for-game-exe-and-winsetup-exe/

[FortressCaulfield]

I appreciate the link but this is all still a bit inscrutable. It reads like a few guesses about what someone MIGHT do but no info about what people actually DID.

Most of the info is coming on 8 years old and one of the links up there even has an expired ssl certificate of its own right as it asks for a bunch of personal info.

[Crimson Wizard]

I'm sorry, I did not realize that the thread does not give clear instructions, but only raised the question apparently. I think it should be unstickied to prevent confusion, and then someone could write a proper one with direct instructions on how to resolve this problem.