Hope someone can help here..

I went to install a freeware program from a site but it's coming up as it need .Net framework 1.1 to install it.

This comp has V2.0 plus a 3.5 add on pack and as such I don't really want to go an install something old just to get this to run since it would I gather overwrite the newer version on here.

I emailed the company about it as yet haven't had a reply but I was just wondering if maybe there was someway around this problem?