Overnet and eDonkey do NOT have a virus! (24.02.2004 17:19:24) from Simon Moon
Its cleared up now, its a screwup over at the guys of Symantec. Norton Antivirus, with the latest updates, thinks that edonkey and overnet are viruses. Thats not the case. NAV is AGAIN wrong, as this false positive already happened a while ago with other software from another company. Weirdly, the enterprise edition of NAV doesnt do that, as somone tried in their company. Other scanners like Mcafee do not react to it. Your only solution is to explude the files of your client from search. Do not disable your Software and ALWAYS scan what you download, even if you clicked the link on SR. Theres always a chance a virus gets through, but in this case its NOT a virus and you are safe to use edonkey and overnet.

Here the offical statement from the maker of edonkey:
There is no virus or backdoor in Overnet or eDonkey2000. Norton antivirus is incorrectly detecting this. We are working to get them to either change their virus definitions or put up a new exe that doesn't get this warning.
Once again. There is absolutely no problem or danger with running overnet or eDonkey2000.


Virus warning: overnet and edonkey2000 installation files (24.02.2004 12:33:01) from Simon Moon
I got now 3 messages from different users that warned about a virus being in the installation files of edonkey2000 and overnet, version 0.51 and version 0.52. Please update your virus scanner to the latest version, or install one, and check your system. You might have the virus as well. Its a trojan virus that might give others the power over your computer.

Update: It seems like the virus is defined as backdoor.blural by Norton Antivirus. I didnt hear yet other sightings that other updated virus scanners have detected it as well. Blural-A is a trojan virus, very dangerous.
However, at this point in time, i cannot say if its the truth or not. I would advise everyone who is suspicious to NOT use overnet or edonkey for the moment. You could use emule for the time being although, no reports that it has the same message.
For those that trust in edonkey and overnet fully, you can go into your options of Norton, there in autopreotect and tell it to exclude edonkey and overnet's exes. Please keep in mind thats not really a secure way, but it would at least make it possible for you to use these clients again.
I will post again when i know whats going on.