.pif

ro b

5 Jun 2003 5 Jun '03

18:02

Friend of mine just got weird attachment with a .pif format suffix. What is a .pif ? I googled it found lots of info but not what I really want. Is this a graphic thing?word processing thing? Please help. I'm baffled TIA rob

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Peter B Van Campen

5 Jun 5 Jun

18:09

New subject: [SLE] .pif

Hi Rob, When in doubt "Delete" PeterB On Thursday 05 June 2003 13:02, ro b wrote:

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Friend of mine just got weird attachment with a .pif format suffix. What is a .pif ? I googled it found lots of info but not what I really want. Is this a graphic thing?word processing thing? Please help. I'm baffled TIA rob

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gary

18:13

New subject: [SLE] .pif

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:02:53PM -0600 or thereabouts, ro b wrote:

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Friend of mine just got weird attachment with a .pif format suffix. What is a .pif ? I googled it found lots of info but not what I really want. Is this a graphic thing?word processing thing? Please help. I'm baffled TIA

It is a variant virus that has hit today, my email servers rejected about 20 of them this morning. W32/Bugbear-B. Have a look at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bugbearb.html -- Gary

Pedro Marques

18:17

New subject: [SLE] .pif

PIF File Extension refers to the Program Information File that may be associated with a DOS application in the Windows environment (it can be used as a batch file too). It was mostly used on old Windows versions (like 3.X), now if you see one it's probably virus. Pedro ----- Original Message ----- From: "ro b" To: Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:02 PM Subject: [SLE] .pif

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Friend of mine just got weird attachment with a .pif format suffix. What is a .pif ? I googled it found lots of info but not what I really want. Is this a graphic thing?word processing thing? Please help. I'm baffled TIA rob

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ro b

18:33

New subject: [SLE] .pif

On Thursday 05 June 2003 12:17, Pedro Marques wrote:

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PIF File Extension refers to the Program Information File that may be associated with a DOS application in the Windows environment (it can be used as a batch file too).

It was mostly used on old Windows versions (like 3.X), now if you see one it's probably virus.

Pedro

----- Original Message ----- From: "ro b" To: Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:02 PM Subject: [SLE] .pif

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Friend of mine just got weird attachment with a .pif format suffix. What is a .pif ? I googled it found lots of info but not what I really

want.

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Is this a graphic thing?word processing thing? Please help. I'm baffled TIA rob

Thank you all so much. I love this list. The knowledge here is vast and superior not to mention super fast in responses. She trashed the .pif file and is happy now Thanks again to all

Carlos E. R.

20:08

New subject: [SLE] .pif

The 03.06.05 at 19:17, Pedro Marques wrote:

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PIF File Extension refers to the Program Information File that may be associated with a DOS application in the Windows environment (it can be used as a batch file too).

It was mostly used on old Windows versions (like 3.X), now if you see one it's probably virus.

That's true; but windows will try to load and execute it, because the extension is "executable". In fact, if you look at them - no problem in linux, not dangerous - they have the "MZ" header, and the file command says they are "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows". I think that some of those emails come with html code that tries to execute the attachement straight away. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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