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Knowledge base article 181

Microsoft Defender paranoid mode

When installing Ability - especially when a new version has been released - you might see the following warning from Windows Defender:

The setup.exe program is actually a Microsoft utility! And it is digitally signed by Ability exactly as described in Microsoft's own instructions!

You can safely ignore this message and click on the More info link followed by Run anyway:

Why does Microsoft do this? Maybe they want everyone to download from their app store. If you want more information on setup.exe and how we use it, it's described by Microsoft here:

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