kate2d.zip.pif?

[swashplate]

Hello all!

Had an e-mail (on my hotmail) on Saturday from a guy called Kieth Maclean (whom I've never heard of) with this attachment "kate2d.zip.pif".

Obviousley, I'd never open an attachment without knowing who it was from :eek:, so I deleted it.

However, it turned up again this morning!

Has anyone else had this? Is it a virus?

[ 29 October 2001: Message edited by: swashplate ]

[What_does_this_button_do?]

Sounds like a virus. .pif files are program information files.

Quote from Symantec:

What is a program information file (.pif)?

Situation:
You notice that some viruses or worms arrive as a file with a .pif extension, which is the extension used by Windows for application shortcuts. You want to know how it is possible for a shortcut to contain a virus or worm.

Solution:
Windows recognizes the .pif extension as an executable format. Current viruses and worms do not arrive in actual .pif format, but generally as a Portable Executable file or some type of executable script. The extension just tells the operating system that it is a file that can be executed. How the operating system executes the file is determined by the actual file format, not the .pif extension.

[swashplate]

Thanks mate!!!!!

Will keep deleting 'em till he gets the message!!!!