Sign Installer and binaries on Windows (Windows Defender think it's malware)

[xnorpx]

Signing on Windows seems to be PITA,

The reason why I haven't jumped on solved this is because to get a certificate it is a cost of ~500 dollars per year. While I can afford it, I am not sure how motivated I am to pay for it.

I have found this information so far for OSS alternatives.

https://signpath.org/apply

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/nl5u79/is_there_fossfriendly_certificate_authority_to/

[xnorpx]

Temp workaround is to use: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

[xnorpx]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48833995/nsis-installer-vs-windows-10-defender-block-and-message-about-trojan-win32-spr

[xnorpx]

https://nsis.sourceforge.io/NSIS_False_Positives#Where_to_report_false_positives

[Judman]

I was able to execute before defender sent it to quarantine.