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i write programs and it is a nightmare to try to distribute them. i have given up on attaching them to email, as nearly every email admin blocks exe attachments (not for any reason other than can check that box) so i wrap them in a setup routine and have people download them from a web site.  now
they are setting over trojan alarms by the antivirus software on the user machines.  there is no malicious code - what is the answer?
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set up your zip or exe in a FTP site and give the link as an ftp link not a web link and that might get around some of the issues..
I use an update service (NT Service) that I wrote, there are some third-party services (InstallShield even had one); but I created my own service that runs as system that keeps the application up-to-date.
You can put the 'download the update' function in the application and the 'Update the exe' function in the service.
ah.. I see
is your client app a browser or an exe?
It is an exe.
If your looking for a browser depoloyment maybe Microsoft ClickOnce technology, since it uses only H_Key User registry entries; it will succeed where users' are not admins.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d(VS.80).aspx
 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/g/archive/2008/06/06/sample-demonstrating-clickonce-deployment-of-com-component-implemented-in-managed-assembly-without-using-gac-or-registry-and-without-requiring-admin-rights.aspx
 
where's the author?  oh you could go to verisign and get a certificate for your code.. or use self signed code.
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