Quoth aisleman:
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The curious thing is that it appears to be a bounced message from pol.co.uk which belongs to Energis. Does that mean their system is infected?!! Or is that part of the smoke screen.
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POL (Planet OnLine) are the company contracted to provide the infrastructure for FreeServe, amongst others, and no their system is not infected.
POL's mail infrastructure is actually quite clever. As the error message says ("the clue is in the question"
):
"This message has been rejected because it has
an
apparently executable attachment Lt.pif This is a virus prevention measure.
If you meant to send this file then please
package it up as a zip file and resend it. "
Their mailservers have been configure to reject messages which contain attachments which could "run" as an application (and thus infect you with a virus), either when you save them as files and double-click, or, in the case of poor unfortunates who have no choice other than to use LookOut!^H^H^H^HOutLook
, if it decides to run the program anyway without asking.
The PIF extension stands for Program Information File, and is a legacy from the DOS/Windows 3.1 days.
HTH