Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion

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Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?

Restaurant kiosks are hazardous places, and not only on the side of the screen where patrons jab greasy fingers. On the other side of the glass, things can also go wrong when Windows starts working against the kiosk software.

Spotted in a Portuguese restaurant chain by eagle-eyed Register reader Mário, the screen shows Windows 10 - though it could possibly be Windows 8.x - turning its nose up at a kiosk application. Either way, the sight of it would be enough to put even the most cast-iron sysadmin off their lunch..

In this instance, the WinRestKioskWPF.exe file is apparently lacking a digital signature to verify its publisher. It has therefore failed the Windows 10 sniff test, and a warning is on display.

The problem is that this is a kiosk, so rather than being able to...

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