On Thursday 12 August 2004 21:03, Malke Routh wrote:
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 11:43, James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all...
My wife got a M$ dat file in an email. Can someone tell me how to open it? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge
*.dat files can come from lots of different applications. They are not meant to be opened.
huh?
Either contact the person who sent the email and ask them what they were doing or just delete it. If you wife is using a Windows operating system, she should definitely delete it.
Sillyness based on ignorance. One shouldn't *run* attached exe files, or blindly click on them in case they are concealed executables, but just deleting them on some "eeek, it's on my system, I've been infected" reasoning is just silly. Like you said, a dat file can be anything, including a valid email from an outlook user. Finding out what it is is the first step