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Benign Changelog

Version 1.5
Released 9th June 2006

Changes from 1.4.1.4 to 1.5

  • Added support for filtering HTML in a number of character sets.
  • Numerous small improvements to the mail parser engine.
  • Fixed problem with filtering certain image URLs.

 

 

Version 1.4.1.4
Released 19 August 2003

Changes from 1.36 to 1.4.1.4 :

  • Reorganized HTML processing options for both message text and attachments to make them easier to understand.
  • Added configuration option to control the length of time message logs are stored for.
  • Added button in the message logs/summary form to clear the logs and/or summaries.
  • Added mail account import support for IncrediMail.
  • Updated mail account import support for Pegasus Mail to work with Pegasus Mail 4.11.
  • Minor improvements to HTML-to-plain-text converter.
  • Changed handling of extremely long lines to work around mail server.
  • Changed handling of invalid text in message header to improve consistency with major mail clients, now removes the invalid line and continues with the header.
  • Changed handling of MIME parts with invalid Content-Transfer-Encoding, now changes them to 8bit instead of blocking them (noticed with spam found in the wild).
  • Fixed handling of multipart/digest MIME subentities with missing Content-Type, now changes them to be message/rfc822.
  • Fixed handling of multipart/related MIME parts, now copies certain extra parameters.
  • Changed handling of certain invalid sequences in HTML to improve consistency with major browsers/mail clients.
  • Changed filtering of whitespace in HTML URLs to improve consistency with major browsers/mail clients.
  • Fixed problem with security profile file type entries with a blank extensions list.
  • Removed Netscape cookie manager warning message added in 1.36, situation confirmed harmless.
  • Added workaround for problem encountered when using the Cache Cleaner ZoneAlarm Pro 4.

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Latest Version:

Benign 1.5

Available for:

Available for Windows 95, 98, NT 4, ME, 2000 or XP

Works with:

Works with POP3

File size:

1.3MB (Download time less than 1 min @256kbps)


User Comments

As the owner of a computer consulting business, many of my customers are computer novices and frequently get viruses or harmful HTML email sent to them which are opened immediately and BANG, the virus infected their computers. Then I heard about Benign software and wondered how good and helpful it would be. I tested Benign on four of my own computers. Usually I get about 200 emails a day, 80% is spam (MailWasher Pro software takes care of this issue), some of them have, of course attachments. Mostly HTML or strange file type. Needless to say, most of them are harmless, but there were situations, where a harmful attachment (like an .vb file) could have infected my computer, if a novice user had opened this email. But since I am running Benign, the program has taken care of that and renamed the file, so I needed to take some action and was aware of the harmful attachment. Benign software has also a great log file so you can see the emails processed each day. You can also configure higher or lower security for known domains. In the future, I will recommend to all my customers to install Benign software on their systems, in combination with MailWasher Pro software, a perfect solution to keep harmful spam OFF their computers. The 'Firetrust-Guys' have done a great job and I would recommend both programs to all users who have to deal with emails.

Tom S. (Queek Creek, Arizona, USA)