[GAP Forum] downloads from GAP site
Dima Pasechnik
dmitrii.pasechnik at cs.ox.ac.uk
Mon Aug 11 10:03:45 BST 2014
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:52:21AM -0800, Walter Becker wrote:
> I recently had the operating system changed from
> XP to Windows 7 (home edition) and also have
> Norton antivirus installed. Also Internet Explored version 11
> is the browser.
> Previous to this I had no problems down-loading
> from GAP now I do. Is this problem found by others.?
> The installation was done for us by a local computer technician.
>
> I had to use Google chrome to get the latest version of
> GAP.
>
> Any comments?
well, indeed, use chrome or firefox. IE is known to be hostile towards zip archives,
particularly ones containing executable code.
(same applies to antivirus software in general, too)
HTH,
Dmitrii
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