Code signing to help with Windows virus false positives

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

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