What is a PPS File?

[tony draper]

Nephew emails me funny stuff he finds ont internet,some clips(I assume they are some kind of video clips) wont play and on my machine dunno why it's top of the range kit,the file designation says PPS,what exactly are these and what does one need to download to play em? and why are all these different bloody video formats.
Help greatfully recieved.

[BOAC]

Simples, as they say http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pps file

[Sprogget]

It's Microsoft powerpoint, mostly used to create arse achingly dull business presentations in the form of slide shows. What your nephew is probably sending you is highly amusing slideshows of scantily clad ladies having soap bubble fights in car washes or drunk Russian people falling over or similar.

You're really not missing much.

[Bushfiva]

If you don't have PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a viewer from Microsoft: Download details: PowerPoint Viewer 2007

[tony draper]

Thanks chaps,downloaded PPviewer and that's done the trick

[Bullethead]

So Admiral D,

What was young nephew sending you?

arse achingly dull business presentations

or

amusing slideshows of scantily clad ladies having soap bubble fights in car washes

or perhaps

drunk Russian people falling over

Regards,
BH.

[tony draper]

That's spooky, it were indeed drunk folks falling over but they weren't Russian, Americanos one reckons from the fatness of the attending members of the constabulary.

[Sprogget]

Ha ha! One is a veteran recipient of pps. presentations!

[LH2]

They're also likely attack vectors (nowadays mainly via any embedded or linked Flash content) for diverse botnet/spyware software.

Probably better off canning that crap, just in case.

[critter592]

You're lucky, Drapes - I tend to only get

arse achingly dull business presentations

As LH2 has quite correctly pointed out, PPS files are increasingly becoming the vehicle for some rather nasty viruses/ malware/ spyware.
A particularly nasty one masquerades as a "funny Star Trek clip".
Do NOT open this - Bin it & delete it. It will infect virtually every file it can on your PC, and then it steals your passwords.

Don

[safetypee]

Change the file ext to .PPT and open with PowerPoint, then you can look at the content without running the slide show. This also enables you to view the speakers notes and possibly the author (Files, Properties).