In case it helps others, here's an update:
I've worked around the problem by (1) downloading
https://strawberryperl.com/download/5.32.1.1/strawberry-perl-5.32.1.1-32bit.msi
manually from my browser (Norton utilities did not block this) and (2)
editing the installation script install-fq-mods.cmd to
Norton Utilities came with my new Windows 11 computer. GnuCash 4.13 is
working great and I've migrated my data from the old computer, but there's
one problem: the script supplied to install finance::quote has failed with
error message "failed to download perl install file". At the same time,
Norton