so they know 'you are you'.ĮV (Extended Validation) certificates are even harder to come by (but not needed for normal software, thankfully). The certificate authorize will require several documents (phone bill, utility bills etc. They are helpful and offer very good rates.ĭue to all the security problems in recent years, getting a certificate has become more complicated (not so much for U.S. I purchase my Authenticode certificate from (no affiliations, just a satisfied customer).

A 'timestamping' mechanism ensures that your executables remain valid even after your certificate has expired. You can sign any number of applications any number of times with your certificate. MSI file too.īut that would only solve 'my' problem, not the general problem.Ĭertificates are purchased for 1 to four years.

I sign all executables and DLLs and the final. So many big money companies use ExifTool for their business (from Flickr to Google (VirusTotal) to.) it should be possible to find a sponsor who pays for Phil Harvey's personal Authenticode Certificate.Īn alternative would be that I sign exiftool.exe with my Authenticode certificate before including it in the installer. But once you have it, it's just a small step in your build process and then exiftool.exe is from a 'known publisher', which reduces the risk of being flagged and blocked or quarantined. I know it's a pain to get one and moderately expensive too. Would it be possible for you (Phil) to sign exiftool.exe (for Windows) with an Authenticode certificate? Hence I have added corresponding checks and messages to tell my users when this happens and what to do about it. I've also had occasional reports in the past about anti-virus solutions interfering, blocking ExifTool.exe by some of my users. So this was a problem that happened out of the blue. I had downloaded this ExifTool version (10.95) several days ago and used it every day since then. I then tried to run exiftool.exe from Windows Explorer and a Windows Defender popup window informed me that it has blocked the application from an unknown publisher. Today my application reported that It cannot determine the ExifTool version because it cannot longer spawn exiftool.exe I use ExifTool from my Windows application via standard CreateProcess().

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