Issue with Firewall (Invalid Digital Signature)

[Charlie Kelly]

Initially when playing the game I have never had this sort of issue; however, after the latest update (1.6.2) when I tried to start the file Norton Firewall blocked it, saying that it had an "invalid digital signature" and that it was trying to make an outbound connection. I set the ruling to "block once" to see what would happen. The game did not start. Chrome opened, and I saw that I was redirected to a Frontier page. It displayed these statistics;

"Very Few Users ... Fewer that 5 users in the Norton Community have used this file."

"Very New ... This file was released less than 1 week ago."

After this, I set the ruling to "allow" and the game ran as normally. Most people would probably not think anything of this, but I am unhealthily paranoid about malware and spyware on my computer. Is there any possibility here that the game had been hacked, or something of that manner? I noticed that even if I set firewall settings to "block" in Norton, the game runs fine, with no attempt to make any sort of outbound connection.

Is there an issue I should be concerned about here (with malware or other) or is my computer ok? I scanned the JWE local files directory in Malwarebytes and Norton and they both showed no threats.

(I am only using Norton because it came bundled with the computer. I am aware that it has a pretty problematic reputation, but it's pretty hard to uninstall as the last time I tried it left remnants of the "security suite" hanging around in the registry.)

Sorry for long post. Just trying to get some peace of mind. If I left out any details I can specify them in a reply.

[Frisky070802]

Interesting, I just hit the same issue, and the first hit I found was this comment, which surprisingly never got any replies.