okay, now that i have spent the time reading both forums... i'll give you guys my conclusions.
First, these things i beleive to be true. Jethroted has installed folding on hundreds of networked machines, and he has done so with the permission of the owners of those machines. He made a .msi file to make the installation easier, as anyone setting up a folding farm wouldn't want to have to individually type team and user #'s on each machine. This .msi file was mistaken for another .msi file and has implanted itself in some other shared file that has been circulated quite quickly around.
Things i can't explain completely but do not alarm me: The low number of active processors listed within his user stats. If the machines are networked behind thick proxy's, this is understandable but i cannot explain it 100%. also, the gentleman "Chad" on the other folding forum pasted his Console text that showed the user name as "jethroted@yahoo.com", a name that doesn't exist in stanford's stats database. if it did that would mean that a user completed at least 1 or 2 WU's under this name, and jethroted would not get those points but rather, a new user
jethroted@yahoo.com would, right? i also do not understand why the .msi has installed folding to be a Maximum processor usage priority program. If jehtroted truley wanted to maliciously install F@H on random computers, in a Spyware format (like i beleive he is being accused of, eh??) he'd probably leave it as a low priority app that people wouldn't notice until at least a few WU's were completed.
just my thoughts, i beleive that there is only circumstancial evidence pointing to wrongdoing here, but once you unfold all the pieces its hardly even circumstancial at that point.
i can only hope that this doesn't taint the image of F@H in the extended cyber-community. My mom won't run F@H because she just got a new Athlon 64 and thinks its a spyware... if she gets wind of this situation, then F@H for her will surely never happen.
Also, we can only assume that jethroted means well. Though not all users here are American, the thought is that a man is innocent until proven guilty. He certainly doesn't look guilty to me, emailing and conversing with the users who have been wrongfully 'infected' with F@H, and trying to remedy the situation.
