"Dave Perry" wrote in message news:200812299349davolente@hotmail.co.uk...
> Avast does some odd things that throw up that error. I moved a program
> that consisted of a single executable (with no installation) from my
> downloads folder to my programs folder, as I thought that would be a
> reasonable place for it to live, being a program, with the intention of
> creating a desktop shortcut to its new location and I had the same message
> when I tried to open it. It took me a long time to cotton on to the fact
> that it was the resident protection in Avast that was blocking it -
> presumably because it was an executable brought in from a different
> location, thought I don't know how it knows that! Turn off the resident
> protection and it worked. Strange thing is that I`ve re-downloaded it and
> left it in the downloads folder, but also getting a "password protected
> file" error as well when I try to run it! Doh!