John Sessoms wrote:

> For those with an open mind, I will detail what has happened.

First, you have to show an open mind yourself. Your original post 
didn't, and your conclusion in this post doesn't show one either.

> For those who refuse to believe that Beonex can be in any way at
> fault, I suggest the following URL:
> http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

("Go fuck yourself")

Such language will not be tolerated on this mailing list.

> Preface: I use Norton Anti-Virus religiously. All email is scanned
> before opening,

Everybody be advised that NAV's email scanning is severely broken, to my 
knowledge. If you hit "Delete" after it found a virus, it will not only 
delete the virus, but the entire Inbox. This is a bug in NAV and there's 
not much we can do about it.

> http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/install/win32/download.html
>
> ... and selected the link for "ibiblio.org (USA; ftp)" where I
> obtained the following file:
>
> beonex-comm-0.8-stable-1-win32-installer.exe

I PGP-sign each browser release download before it leaves my own private 
network. The signatures are public, accessiable from abive quoted page. 
I also have these signatures stored locally.

Because all other people reported that they have neither litmus.exe nor 
the problems you describe, I think we can assume that *some* versions of 
this release file were OK.

I just downloaded the file you mentioned from ibiblio and checked it 
signature against the signature file on my own computer. The file is the 
same that I uploaded back then.

So, unless the had an intermediate virus problem, which they fixed in 
the meantime (quite unlikely, I'd say, esp. because they don't report 
about it in their News section), the file seems to be sane, judging from 
the other reports. I invite you to check your own copy of the downloaded 
file against the PGP signature (you need PGP or GnuPG, of course).

> That was immediately followed by another
> pop-up warning from Zone Alarm asking if I wanted to allow
> Beonex-comm.exe to access the internet as a server. I again selected
> NO.

Wrong. Please see the FAQs to Mozilla / Netscape 6.

> At some point the beonex's install files
> have been compromised and I have been infected with a trojan that came
> with the beonex install.

Good to know that you are sure what happened. I guess we can close this 
issue then.


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