From my experience:
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home and SOHO users will often ignore the driver signatures. After all,
in the days of w2k and GeForce 2MX, lots of nVidia’s Detonator downloads were
not signed, and sometimes the unsigned built worked better then a signed one.
Home and SOHO users are very prone to install anything new (many of them have
the “new == great, since we live for new impressions” attitude) and are
careless in terms of security and safety. They also often download, install,
play with, then uninstall all kinds of sharewarez, often buggy. -
not so with corporate desktops, where the IT department is paranoid, in
banking/finances especially. These people yes, will sacrifice the functionality
for “being sure”. They are also not prone to anything new. “The old thing works
OK - why replace it?”. I know banks who still run NT4SP6 on desktops. -
WHQL sometimes puts signatures on buggy binaries. Some Detonator versions
for w2k were such, as was some version of Intel’s IAA IDE stack dated around
Apr 2002, which caused surprise removal of a boot disk on PnP rescan from
Device Manager :-). I can understand that subtle drawing bugs in particular
games could go unnoticed at WHQL, but sorry, the failing PnP paths is something
that must be caught even by MATS. So, the idea of WHQL is already a bit
devalued in user’s eyes.
Resume: if you target the SOHO market - then the lack of WHQL approval is
possibly not a problem. Not so with corporate market.
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
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Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: [ntdev] RE: How Can I Prevent “Digital Signature Not Found” D ialo g
Box by a Program While Installing an Unsigned Driver in Win2K?
> Like I said in a reply to this thread before. That wont work if the machine
> is set to block unsigned drivers.
>
>
> Rob Linegar
> Software Engineer
> Data Encryption Systems Limited
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Shnaider [mailto:xxxxx@arx.com]
> Sent: 10 November 2003 10:13
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> Subject: [ntdev] RE: How Can I Prevent “Digital Signature Not Found” Dialo g
> Box by a Program While Installing an Unsigned Driver in Win2K?
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>
> HI,
> You can find Didital Sighnature dialog (function FindWindowEx) in your
> setup-program and send
> “Enter” using function keybd_event (.)
> I used this way and it works
> Mark
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> Hi all,
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> As title, thanks.
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