Windows Defender SmartScreen prevents installation of Mnemosyne on Windows 10 PC

[saifen...@gmail.com]

Downloaded mnemosyne 2.6.1 setup.exe but when I try to run it I get the message "Windows Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk".

"More Information" throws up only
"Application: mnemosyne-2.6.1-setup.exe
Publisher: Unknown publisher "

How should I react to this ?

[Peter Bienstman]

If you trust us to install the software, you can click on 'more info', and then there's an option to install the software anyway.

Cheers,

Peter

[saifenspender]

Thanks for this. 

As written previously, I had already clicked on 'More info'. The 'More info' told me nothing useful.

My concern was that, because Windows threw up this warning, the file I had downloaded might not be the original Mnemosyne installation file but one which, because it came from SourceForge rather than Mnemosyne, might have been changed on the way. So I ran it through Kaspersky virus check (which declared it to be clean) and Kaspersky Application Adviser (which also declared it clean and said that one user - from the Netherlands - had also given it the OK). I then told Windows Defender to let it go through and have installed the software. 

Cheers

Hailo 

Sent from Samsung tablet.

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