Norma,
Thank you, I finally figured out the problem and you are correct it was 
caused by my CA firewall. When I finally got clued in on the firewall 
problem I downloaded ZoneAlarm and I'm back to downloading zip and .exe 
files.

Thanks for the help
Lynn

>
> To Lynn from Norma, Here's the answer:
> EFW File Extension
>      File Type  Renamed Zip or Executable File
>      Category Compressed Files
>      Common? No
>      File Description Compressed .ZIP or executable .EXE file renamed by 
> CA
> Security Centre to have a ".efw" extension; typically applies to e-mail
> attachments scanned by Computer Associates (CA) antivirus software.
>      EFW zipped files may be opened by changing the file extension to
> ".zip" and opening the file with a decompression utility, such as WinZip 
> or
> Stuffit Expander; executable files may be run directly by changing the 
> file
> extension to ".exe" and opening the file.
>      NOTE: Do not open unknown e-mail attachments from non-trusted 
> sources,
> as they may contain viruses or other malicious programs.
>      Program(s) that open efw files  Mac OS  Allume Systems Stuffit
> Expander
>             BOMArchiveHelper (included with Mac OS X)
>
>           Windows  WinZip
>             WinAce
>             PKZip
>             Bitberry BitZipper
>             Winferno SnapZip
>             TurboSoft AnyZipl
>             Allume Systems Stuffit Expander
>
>           Linux  unzip
>             funzip
>             p7zip
>
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