Windows Blocking My Installer?

Hello everyone, we have our own installer for our program. Our program is ev code signed and the installer is also. For some reason, installer goes to download a zipped file, it gets to 1kb and stops. The same code is working on Macintosh. We are using a temp file to download and unzip the file. Why would windows be blocking the zip file from being downloaded? I turned off antivirus. Also, how can I log the error to see what is causing the download to be stopped? Thanks in advance.

OK, the first suspect would be the antivirus, and that is taken care of. Next on my list is the browser security settings and default download folder, assuming that you are going through the browser. If your own application is handling the download, then I would check whether the Windows firewall is active, and whether your application can initiate a download. Perhaps group policies also, although I don’t recall anything such at the moment. (switched to Linux almost a year ago. My memory fails me…)

eventvwr.msc can take you some of the way checking for errors. Windbg is an additional utility available on the Microsoft store. I used it once long ago. It can be quite useful.

Hoping that this is helping you. LD

Thanks for the help. I may have stumbled on a solution. I stated that I code signed the exe but did not realize that I also needed to code sign the dll. It’s allowing me to download the zipped file with the code signed exe and (now) code signed dll. Thanks for responding.