12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
22:01
The Thursday 2004-08-12 at 20:43 +0200, James Hatridge wrote:
My wife got a M$ dat file in an email. Can someone tell me how to open it?
The extension .dat stands for "data", usually binary data; many program could use such a file: you'd need to know what created it. Or it might be a false extension, like "something.dat .exe", with so many white spaces that the ".exe" is out of the window and not seen (they hope). Then, it is 99.9999% sure malware (virus, worm, trojan, etc). In Linux you can safely run "file unknownfile.dat" and the program "file" will try to guess what type the file really is, based on it's structure, not the extension. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson