[Windows] Warn user that antivirus might interfere with installation

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I wonder if it would be possible to modify the windows install script to pass the --ssl-no-revoke flag to the curl command. This should allow the script to download the files without SSL certification on systems where the user does not have control of policies like anti-virus scanning. (This is my case on my companies' computer system for example)

Or, at least, give users the option to disable the SSL check if that error occurs so the install can continue.

The problem is that the download is mutable and we don't do a digest check because of that. So disabling SSL would mean you have zero protection against MITM attacks.

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marked this issue as related to #358

mentioned in commit b6779f4d

mentioned in merge request !251 (merged)

closed with merge request !251 (merged)