"Windows protected your PC. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting." - How do I address this? : Delimit Sales & Support Portal

"Windows protected your PC. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting." - How do I address this? Print

Modified on: Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 12:05 PM

You may see this warning message when trying to download and/or run our installer: DelimitSetup.exe.

This is because we have recently updated our software with a new release and with it also our DelimitSetup.exe installer. Meaning, DelimitSetup.exe is relatively new and has not yet been downloaded often enough to prevent this message from showing. MS Edge and MS Defender SmartScreen, by default, block such new downloads and the execution of such downloads, hence the warning message. To circumvent this you can do the following:

1) Click on "More info", notice the Publisher info, which is us:

2) Click on "Run anyway".

MS Defender SmartScreen has been designed to discourage downloading of uncommon files. This is understandable for malicious files but not for files that are blocked just because they are new. As more people download our installer, this message should faze out. But we will have a new release in the future and this may start all over again. We are looking into how to address this long term. Thank you for your understanding.

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