I did some tests on my Win10 machine and found one more security issue
that can go wrong:
The "temporary directory" where you unzip, must not be protected against
system access, e.g. it cannot be encrypted.
In my own case, if I do the sequence below, it fails because my
Documents folder is not readable from the System account because I have
turned on encryption of my home directory. The fix is to unzip into a
temporary directory that is readable from system and is not encrypted.
Here is the sequence that fails:
use Firefox to download, click the "Raw" button on github,
let Firefox "open the file with Windows Explorer"
Right click in Windows Explorer on the downloaded zip file and use
Extract All...
this is what causes the failure:
Windows Explorer offers to unzip into my encrypted home directory.
The unzip works, and install.bat will run, but it has to elevate
privileges to admin to copy into WriteLog's Programs directory...and bad
stuff proceeds.
I really don't want to spend the time to write a real Windows installer
for this thing, but...its not looking good, so far.
Wayne
On 8/6/2016 03:23, Wayne, W5XD wrote:
> lots of stuff deleted before and after this quote:
>
>> Thereafter I downloaded the Dual Run zip file which I unzipped to a
>> temporary directory.
>>
>> Double clicking on install.bat brings up a window with a button inviting me
>> to Run.
> Are you certain you really are following the instructions? Did you
> really do that unzip? or did you let Windows Explorer display the
> contents of that zip file and then double click on its picture of
> install.bat? (the latter won't work and pretty much does what you
> describe next--which is nothing.)
>
> If you confirm all that is as it should be, then the next issue could be
> a security issue. When I do the above on Win10--starting with the zip
> file download from github and doing the unzip as described--Win10
> complains about running the install.bat with a "Windows protected your
> computer" and a "Run anyway" button.
>
> I vaguely recall it is possible to tell Windows 10 to unconditionally
> reject what it thinks are malicious applications without putting up this
> box, but I cannot remember any details.
>
> Wayne
>
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