How can I make SmartScreen Filter trust a self-signed certificate

Question

Microsoft\'s SmartScreen Filter under Windows 8 is a small developer\'s worst nightmare.

While I realize the benefits to end users and the effectiveness at stopping

Answer 1

I have found a really easy way to bypass the filter even without admin privileges. What you need to do is:

1. Open notepad
2. Type in the following line: @%*
3. Save the file as "SkipSmartScreen.bat" (yes, with the quotes) in the same folder as your app. You can rename the batch file later
4. To launch your app, drag your exe on to the batch file

This will then bypass smartscreen filter.

Tested on Windows 10 Home, Pro, and Enterprise, and Windows 8 Pro.

How it works:

• @ - This is just for looks, it hides the name of the command being executed
• %* - This expands to all command line arguments passed (e.g. the file you dropped on the batch file
• The whole thing: It executes the file through the batch file as if it was a line in the batch file. For some reason, Windows does not do any check on files which are executed from a batch file.