5 Jun
2003
5 Jun
'03
20:08
The 03.06.05 at 19:17, Pedro Marques wrote:
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