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Re: Thank you!
From: |
Laurent Jacques |
Subject: |
Re: Thank you! |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:13:18 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:54, Ted Harding wrote:
| To all whom it may concern: The email Laurent is referring to almost
| certainly contained a Windows virus in the "pif" file ("PIF" stands, I
| think, for "Program Information File" or "Program Initiation File", and it
| is executable in DOS/Windows in order to start up a given program with
| given options). A considerable proportion of the various viruses that have
| been going around recently arrive in attachments which have the ".pif"
| extension. The text "Please see the attached file for details" in the
| message body is common in these virus-bearing emails.
|
| In answer to Laurent: delete it! (Not much danger, in any case, given
| that he doesn't look like a Windows user!)
Thank you for this alert. So please, don't convert it into a GNU virus ;-)
BTW, John Campbell has perhaps to check his computer ?
Or his email address has perhaps been put in the field "From to" of the
previous mail to pass some filters of this ML ?
Bye,
Laurent.
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