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Re:Windows Defender detects malware in DMD by platinumrad on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:34PM (#18349775)
Sounds like a racket, to be honest. Can't say that I'm sad that their reputation, along with the reputation of traditional AV vendors as a whole, is in the dumpster these days.
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Re:Windows Defender detects malware in DMD by hermitdev on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:50PM (#18350577)
It is most definitely a racket, and their "repuation" score severely affected our reputation with existing clients.

Same deployment procedure as had been for years (we'd previously been code-signing with a GoDaddy cert) with Click-Once deployment (was a .Net Office add-in), all of a sudden we start getting dinged.

The cost to the company (a relatively small company) was significant. Had to buy a Symantec code-signing cert (~$900), had to ditch ClickOnce and invest in InstallShield (don't recall the license cost) and engineer the installer to both sign the installed libs & the installer itself. All of this because Symantec hadn't seen the new libs enough because, well, we targeted a smaller corporate audience (for argument sake, we had around a 100 clients, of which, each would only have 1 or 2 installs of this particular app).

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