He finally downloaded a tiny file, but it wasn't ObjectDock. It was a Trojan horse designed to turn his computer into a crypto-miner.
It spent its days posting a long, hypenated title: ObjectDock-2-21-0-865-Crack-With-Product-Key-Download--2022- . To a human, it looked like a desperate mess of keywords. To a search engine, it looked like a goldmine of information for someone looking to customize their Windows desktop for free.
If you want a free dock, look at open-source options like RocketDock or Winstep Nexus , which are often safer than hunting for "cracks" of paid software.
You can find the real, safe version of the software on the Stardock ObjectDock page .