Thanks Jacek
Michel.
Jacek Piskozub wrote:
> 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
