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Hmmm, well I still get this when I download your game. The same thing happens to my game.  I think it's a windows 10 defender thing because the exe is from an un-known publisher.  It really sucks there is no easy way to avoid this.



So when downloading you get no warning? Does Windows defender say this when you click on the .exe to play or after the download? If after clicking to play you could make changes to the protection level inside of the windows defender

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That appears because there isnt enough data or people using it, once it gets to a certain amount of users it will stop showing up, Microsoft made it a long time ago to warn users of unknown software. This is easy to fix by digitally signing the distributed software (i do not know how you do that in unity). The signing certificate can also effect the threat level so if you want to bypass it you need to officially do it and not make one up.

I did here that if enough use it then it'll stop showing.  

My game demo (https://jeffweber.itch.io/just-flip-demo) has over 500 DL's and it still happens.  Problem is a lot of people probably aren't playing it because they get this warning.

I understand I can get it digitally assigned but from what I understand it's not easy and not cheap. Unless there is an indie friendly way of doing it.

-Jeff

It happens when you click the exe. 

I know I can fix it on my machine, the issue is other folks downloading my game see that and think it's a virus.

Yes I read about that signing but how is it that other games that are just released work just fine without any problem?

Yeah, that is the part I don't understand either.