im downloading from http://software.opensuse.org/
1)32bit
2)dvd
3)Standard (ftp or http)
it just goes to 251MB or 5% then it scan for virus and stops the download...it doesn finish the download which should be like 4.2 GB

what os are you using to download it vista ?
if so what web browser IE 7 ? or firefox 3 ?
FTP what are you using , the web browser or a ftp client ( like filezilla) ?

and this file ?
h??p://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso

have you tried the torrent ?
have you read the " download help " page ?
http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help

Normally IE fails while downloading large files.
Try using wget (over cygwin) when downloading large files.

Also ensure that you have enough storage space in the download location.

hemantm are you really telling him to install CygWin ( or mingw) on windows, just to DL the .iso ?

i personally would use fillzilla ( ftp), bittorent , or like
or firefox
but seeing as we DO NOT know what "sdcc619" is using the point is mute .

This is a good point -- could it be simply that you are downloading to a location that has very little available free space?

using firefox 3.0.7 my os is windows xp, im downloading it to my desktop

how about telling ff3 to save to " My Documents "
and get it off the desktop . the desktop is a " special " folder and dl'ing a large 3.9 gig file there might be the problem .
open ff3 and click on " edit / preferences
on the " main " tab ( bottom of the window) set it to c:\Documents and Settings/Your-User-Name/My Documents

also what AV software are you using . Turning it off before you download it might help , if that is what is scanning it at 5%
a MS Windows virus scanner might through an error for linux code( or a .iso) . It plain simply dose not know what to make of it .

problem solved...i just turned off my antivirus and it went beyond 251mb...all the way through