

If you’ve found this article via Google search and you’re frustrated that you can’t install an application because Windows 10 keeps flat out denying you with the error message “This app has been blocked for your protection” before we even dig into how to circumvent the error we want you to take a deep breath and think about where the file came from.

RELATED: Beginner Geek: Why is User Account Control Bugging Me? Over the years the engineers at Microsoft have slowly tightened things down, improvement by improvement, and thanks to signed drivers, certificates, user account control settings, and so on there’s a much lower chance these days that you’ll accidentally install malicious software. Historically Windows has been pretty loosey goosey when it comes to file security and the prevention of malicious software attacks.

As a general rule you don’t want to do this.
