The installer has no signing certificate, so SmartScreen warns before letting it run. It isn’t a virus — it’s Windows being careful with an uncommon program.
Double-click MetaClip-Setup.exe. A blue screen appears saying “Windows protected your PC”.
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
More infoIt’s a small link just under the text, easy to miss. That link is what reveals the button to continue.
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
The installer opens normally. If it asks for administrator permission, accept — it installs into ProgramData, the Windows equivalent of macOS /Library.
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk.
It only looks for plugins on launch. If it’s open, quit it, install, and open it again.
A Windows signing certificate costs several hundred dollars a year. MetaClip is free and sells nothing, so that cost never pays for itself. SmartScreen stops warning on its own as more people install it.
Open PowerShell and run Get-FileHash followed by the file. The result must match this:
