Michel Sergent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this newsgroup.
>
> I've seen many references to mozilla so I went to www.mozilla.org and
> tried to download mozilla from the ftp area but was given a "forbidden
> access" error.
You had bad luck. All win32 installer builds (the ones with .exe
extension) have been pulled due to a computer virus on one of the hosts.
The rest of Win32 builds is blocked (this "forbidden access" thing).This
is all I've learned since yesterday.
This must be something serious as there were no evening builds for any
platform. Same thing this morning. Even the release (0.8 etc) win32
binaries have been remved!
I'm surprised that no one at Mozilla.org gives any info on the state of
things. Especially as I've downloaded 2001-03-14-06 installer build just
before it was blocked (and later pulled). There is no info on
www.mozilla.org or www.mozillazine.org or the newsgroups (except that
there are no new win32 builds because of a virus).
I would like to hear the name of the virus to be able to check if my
host is infested (I've checed with two fresh releases of anti-virus
programs with negative results, but this may be a new virus not yet in
the databases).
Jacek
