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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 ]

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

Quote from Symantec:

Quote:

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.

Thanks mate!!!!!

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