Code signing to help with Windows virus false positives

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 17:05:32 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> With all of the issues people are having with Windows Defender 
> now would be a good time to start code signing the Windows 
> installer and binaries (doing this is the first thing Microsoft 
> suggests on their page for Software Developers about Windows 
> Defender false positives).
>
> I propose the D Foundation acquire a code signing certificate 
> and we start using it for releases. Alternatively any well 
> known organization member could be the signer (having "The D 
> Foundation" on the popup sure would look nice though). I'd be 
> happy to put my money where my mouth is and chip in some of the 
> money to cover the certificate cost.
>
> I've used StartSSL's code signing certificates successfully for 
> this purpose but I imagine any vendor will do. The biggest 
> hassle is certificate format conversion but once you've got the 
> certificate in the Windows certificate store signing is just a 
> command line call that can be easily scripted.
>
> There is already an issue created for this here: 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16065

Do you think that a certificate prevents an antivirus to scan an 
executable ? I'm laughing out of loud here.