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Subject: Re: Virus Warning
From: Doug Crice dcrice@............
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 07:47:16 -0800


I know enough to look out for .vbs or .exe files, but this file ended in
(random message).TXT.pif

The message is one of many chosen at random by the virus.  I didn't know
that an executable file could have a .pif extension.  Neither .exe or
..vbs was present. 

Clicking on that link to Symantec doesn't seem to work, but typing it in
does.  Go figure.

Doug

Ted Blank wrote:
> 
> It is good advice not to run any executable that comes from an unknown (and
> therefore untrusted) source.  .VBS is another type of executable file
> (Visual Basic Script) and some nasty viruses have come packaged this way.
> But not all attachments that end in .exe contain viruses.  We used to
> distribute our programs as .exe attachments BLW (Before Larry and the Web).
> Just be doubly careful with these files.
> 
> I also urge people to beware of a simple trick:  naming a file something
> like    funnyjoke.txt.exe    where your eye might catch the 'txt' part and
> you double click on it (thinking that Wordpad or some editor will get
> invoked).  Of course, Windows only looks at the last extension which is
> 'exe' and poof you are in trouble.
> 
> BTW, the URL in the note below should end in html, not htm.
> 
> Regards,
> Ted Blank
> 
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> 
> Doug Crice @.............. on 11/22/2000 12:28:18 AM
> 
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> If you get a message with a link with the extension .pif or .exe, don't
> open it, it contains a virus.
> 
> You can read about it at
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w95.mtx.htm
> --
> Doug Crice                http://www.georadar.com
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