[wix-users] installer reported by Windows Defender

Pally Sandher pally.sandher at iesve.com
Mon Jun 6 04:48:34 PDT 2016


I've been using the 2nd method (editing the .wixproj to override targets) Neil outlines at the bottom of this post for a few years now -> http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wix-burn-tipstricks.html

Works pretty well if you have a private key for your certificate (make sure you are signing using an SHA-2 certificate as SHA-1 is all but deprecated at this point -> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/32288.windows-enforcement-of-authenticode-code-signing-and-timestamping.aspx). 

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Lynch
Sent: 06 June 2016 10:14
To: 'WiX Toolset Users Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [wix-users] installer reported by Windows Defender

Good idea. Is there any documentation on how to go about signing my bundle?


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Rob Mensching
Sent: 04 June 2016 00:03
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] installer reported by Windows Defender

Signing your bundle helps significantly.

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
Stewart Lynch
Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 2:21 PM
To: 'WiX Toolset Users Mailing List' <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] installer reported by Windows Defender

It seems that quite a few installers have been hit by this false positive.
I've submitted my installer to Microsoft's Malware Protection Centre for
rescanning. Hopefully that will sort it out.


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