Software Smart App Control

[JMW]

Hi People.
Smart App Control blocks running Orbiter.exe and Orbiter_ng.exe from anywhere except my root folder.
If I copy them and put on taskbar they're blocked.
If I make a shortcut and leave it in the root folder it blocks that!

Notifying that I think it is safe doesn't make it recognised next time (why is there no option to "Run anyway"?)
With "43 trillion signals" to search, I think mine is a drop in a waterfall!

Is there any way except turning off SAC, (which I don't want to do as seems a good safeguard) to get these
apps recognised, or somewhere they will run?

Any workarounds that you know?.....
Thankee.

 

[Urwumpe]

There are currently, according to Microsoft, only two ways to do this.

1. Disable SAC.
2. Sign the application with a valid certificate, which sadly costs a hell of money per year, since the private key must be stored on a hardware device since 2023.

Authenticode and SAC are pretty much Microsofts way of saying "Fuck off" to FOSS.

 

[jedidia]

(which I don't want to do as seems a good safeguard)

I still haven't figured out what it's supposed to be a safeguard against, other than "developers that didn't pay microsoft a boatload of money"...

 

[JMW]

There are currently, according to Microsoft, only two ways to do this.

1. Disable SAC.
2. Sign the application with a valid certificate, which sadly costs a hell of money per year, since the private key must be stored on a hardware device since 2023.

Authenticode and SAC are pretty much Microsofts way of saying "Fuck off" to FOSS.

Give it time and someone will find a way round it -- but then, it'll be useless anyway