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Thanks Pete. I've updated the thread title to reflect the actual situation.

Yes, I'm definitely thinking this is the case now. I've done some more research and it seems that Sonicwall don't let you download anything compressed by Petite, full stop. We tried downloading outside of the firewall with AVAST protection and that threw up the same issue - I suspect that they've also done a blanket block of Petite-packed files. Your updated file downloads just fine so thanks for your attention on this Pete - I was pretty sure there wouldn't be a virus, but wanted to alert you to it just in case. Now, back to looking into FS2004 support for the new Saitek Pro Flight panels...

Hi Pete, 'Executable' is the terminology used by our IT guy when he came and let me know what's going on - I guess from your quote marks there's no executable inside the zip; I wouldn't know as I can't get the file at the moment! Like I said, it's odd that I can download any of the other files, but this is the only one that Sonicwall blocks. Anyway, I'll let you know more once he gets back to me.

Okay, My IT admin has looked into this and it would appear that the file does indeed have a virus. The petite part of the virus report tells us that Petite was used to compress the executable and it appears that's what's used for the other files on the site. The fact that we can download the other files with no issue does indicate that there's potentially a virus on the SDK file. Apparently there are a number of worms that can attach themselves to a Petite-compressed file. Just an FYI - this has been reported before on the forum by a different user. Bearing in mind that Sonicwall is a high-end enterprise standard firewall box, it's possible it's picking stuff up that standard home AV packages aren't... We'll download the file outside of the firewall and scan the executable and let you know what we find. Not having a go or anything - just want to help out!

It's a company firewall - manufactured by Sonicwall. If you're showing as clean than I'll go and see the IT admin and see if he can sort it out. Thanks for checking this out for me!

Hi Peter, Just trying to download the SDK but my firewall won't let me because it's reporting that the zip file contains a 'Suspicious#petite (Worm)' virus. Could you check this out please?