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I think I've seen this before, very rarely though. If I remember correctly you can continue to open it from the popup, right?
"Windows Smartscreen has blocked this app from running"
Yes, you can pull the "more options" thing and run it.
There's a button to ignore it, and paying Microsoft wouldn't help anyways, there's someone else you need to pay for signing keys
John Windows himself...