He already did that, and the same problem occurred right away. So it’s probably an antivirus issue.
OK, if it really won’t get past block 1698 on redownload, then we’re in stranger territory.
Yes, possibly he has antivirus software or even a router or filewall that is pattern matching a sequence of bytes and censoring it.
It would be instructive to get knightmb’s blk*.dat and see if that gets him past that point.
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