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Benign latest version 1.4.1.4 (August 19, 2003)

Changes from 1.36 to 1.41

• Reorganised 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.

Benign Version 1.3.6.1 - released 22nd April 2003

• Can strip out web bugs, malicious html, scripts, viruses and worms.

• Neutralises your e-mail so you can download your messages in complete safety

• Protect your privacy by eliminating web bugs

• Prevent worms from spreading by automatically preventing them run

• Catch all the e-mail borne viruses your anti virus program can’t

• Easy to use, just setup and forget.

• 30 day trial

• Works with POP3

• Windows 95, 98, NT 4, ME, 2000 or XP

• File size: 1.3 MB. Download Time: 3 mins @ 56kbps

Changes from 1.35 to 1.36

• Added a 'Thank you, your registration was successful' message when a valid registration key is entered.

• Added a 'The registration key you have entered is not valid.' message when inputing an old-style trial key (trial keys are no longer used).

• Changed the 'Could not bind socket. Address and port are already in use.' message to a more helpful explanation.

• Changed the way the security profile file types lists are saved into the registry so that the entries stay in the same order.

• Changed handling of A href attributes in HTML emails so that fragment-only links (ie. links to part of the same email) are not affected.

• Added extra error handling on Netscape cookie manager, to attempt to track down a problem affecting one user.

Changes from 1.34 to 1.35 (Internal release)

• Added a 'Update the received date and time on each message' option, now off by default.

• Added workaround requested by a user to deal with certain broken cgi-bin e-mail scripts, message parts with "Content-Type: text" (which is invalid) will be changed to "text/plain".