Aye I do have AVG **** instaled.... and I was downloading from the official site.. I have been runing epsxe for weeks now with no problems and I've shut off AVG and tired it but I'm still getting a permissions message
tried everything from the other thread aswell to no avail

just gonna cut my losses and start again... just going to jam my finger on pSX's fast forward button till I get to where I was... thanks for the help guys.