Re: Failed downloads

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:42:40 -0800

*lora* wrote:

> im getting alot of popups on web pages and so have been trying to
> download, spybot search and destroy, ive used a number of sources and
> the download will fail at the very end and the following appears
> "Cannot copy file: cannot read from the source file or disk" this has
> happened with every download (done about 12 of them) and it also
> happened with anoughter file i tried to download.
>
> the pop ups come up every few min and its really annoying im running
> XP and am trying to get the SP2 but the download isnt working (stops
> part way throught). does any one know any free reliable downloads that
> i can use (ive got ad-aware and spyware blaster and they are not
> working) please help
> *lora*

Please see my very lengthy answer to your first post. Keep posts about
one subject in *one* thread and wait at least 24 hours before posting
the same question as a new post.

Malke 

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