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Is FastPictureViewer safe for my computer and my images?

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Is FastPictureViewer safe for my computer and my images?

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Yes. FastPictureViewer, unlike 99% of all software sold today, comes as a digitally signed executable within a digitally signed MSI installation database. Digital code signing (we use a Thawte Authenticode certificate) ensure that the files you install are genuine originals and were not tampered with in any way, as Windows validates the digital signatures at installation time. Digital signature also ensure full traceability of the files, with authoring information and time stamps securely embedded in them. Furthermore, for normal viewing your image files are opened strictly in read-only mode thus not modifiable by FastPictureViewer itself even in the advent of a error causing a program crash (however, the XMP rating/labeling and Windows 7, Windows Vista rating functions can optionally add or update information contained within the image files themselves, thus modify the files by definition). FastPictureViewer is delivered using the latest Microsoft Windows Installer technology and thus

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