SP2 & "The Publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?"

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Amos Soma - 05 Jan 2005 19:35 GMT

Hello.

Our company has created a .Net application which the user starts by
executing via a URL (i.e., http://someserver/application.exe). On some
machines running Windows XP SP2, the user will see a dialog containing the
message "The Publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run
this software." This does not happen on most machines running SP2, but it
does occur on a couple. And yet, the Security settings on the machines where
it does occur seems to be the same as on the machines where it doesn't
happen. Can anyone tell me how to turn this off?

Thanks.

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Amit Bahree - 05 Jan 2005 19:56 GMT

Amos,
Which security settings did you check? You need to check the IE security
settings. Also if the machines have some global security setting (say if
they are on a domain), then you need check for that also. Lastly, if
your application downloads other components (e.g. an ActiveX control),
then that could also be the issue - if so, the machines where you don't
see this, could those ActiveX components already be installed on them?

Amit.

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Adam P. Tatusko, MCSD .NET, MCAD .NET, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSA - 06 Jan 2005 05:38 GMT

If you sign your assembly with an Authenticode certificate, you won't
get this message.

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