{"id":3402,"date":"2024-03-14T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voodoo.business\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:34:32","slug":"apps-wont-run-without-an-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/apps-wont-run-without-an-internet-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps won&#8217;t run without an internet connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of my paranoia when using windows (Fear of ransomware or spyware or otherwise), I allow my web browser to connect via proxy, and the rest of the machine&#8217;s apps have no internet access (Which is a KVM virtual machine, with USB and graphics passthrough)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, recently, Applications are no longer running on windows 10 ! Instead, I am getting a message that reads :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">SmartScreen can't be reached right now. \n\nCheck your internet connection. Microsoft defender SmartScreen is unreachable and can't help you decide if this app is okay to run.\n\nPublisher: xxxx\nApp: xxxx<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems to be something relevant to Microsoft security, where windows consults with Microsoft before running an app for the first time !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My solution is to disable it, why, because I have to pick one method or the other to protect my computer, and antivirus software, although works if you download torrents etc&#8230; doesn&#8217;t really detect the latest threats, when they say detects and removes 99% of viruses, this includes all viruses from 1981 onward, and very few of the most recent viruses and threats, so the question remains, if i am not downloading torrents and the like, what are the odds i would meet Michelangelo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the steps to disable this are as follows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my paranoia when using windows (Fear of ransomware or spyware or otherwise), I allow my web browser to connect via proxy, and the rest of the machine&#8217;s apps have no internet access (Which is a KVM virtual machine, with USB and graphics passthrough) Now, recently, Applications are no longer running on windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}