Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-20 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
on 20.01.04 0:08, Cotty at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh my GOD Robert, I just opened a PIF file - and guess what happened ?!?!? Nothing? ;-) Sometimes it is really good to be different :-) -- Best Regards Sylwek

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-20 Thread Cotty
On 19/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Oh my GOD Robert, I just opened a PIF file - and guess what happened ?!?!? Cheers, Cotty I don't know :o) You won a million dollars? I wish. What happened? Nothing. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-20 Thread Cotty
On 19/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Well, if I get an e-mail wherein the subject line thanks me for buying them lunch, I ~know~ it's gotta be fake!! So Frank is it true that you have the deepest pockets and the shortest arms east of the Rockies? ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O)

VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread Patrick White
FYI, this message had a virus attached (well, that's _my_ interpretation of having a file named 031013-2141.cl5.pif attached means :-) later, patbob On Monday 19 January 2004 09:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Roland is right. I have just the same opinion. There is time when

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread mapson
At 02:08 PM 19/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: Patrick White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, this message had a virus attached (well, that's _my_ interpretation of having a file named 031013-2141.cl5.pif attached means :-) If anyone opens a PIF file they asked for it! (*)o(*)

Vs: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread Raimo Korhonen
: mapson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Päivä: 19. tammikuuta 2004 22:45 Aihe: Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS At 02:08 PM 19/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: Patrick White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, this message had a virus attached (well, that's _my_

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread Cotty
On 19/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: At 02:08 PM 19/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: Patrick White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, this message had a virus attached (well, that's _my_ interpretation of having a file named 031013-2141.cl5.pif attached means :-) If anyone opens a PIF

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread Jostein
Must be a big archive of sent mail too, if that mail originated from PDML. Roland Mabo left us a couple of years ago, iirc. Jostein - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:08 PM Subject: Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread mapson
Oh my GOD Robert, I just opened a PIF file - and guess what happened ?!?!? Cheers, Cotty I don't know :o) You won a million dollars? I do not claim that you can avoid ALL viruses but often they follow a pattern. PIFs are good give-away it might be a virus. Another one is a general

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread Keith Whaley
Not being a PC person, I visited Google. They said, in defining a .pif file: Short for Program InFormation file, a type of file that holds information about how Windows should run a non-Windows application. For example, a PIF file can contain instructions for

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread mapson
Since this is a Windows how to work file, why is it necessarily associated with virii? I know I'm missing something here, but it has always seemed to me that a .pif file, by itself, is not an indicator of the presence of a virus. Are .pif files carriers of viruses? What? keith Not being a

Re: VIRUS: Re: Pentax needs USM and IS

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Roberts
Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not being a PC person, I visited Google. They said, in defining a .pif file: Short for Program InFormation file, a type of file that holds information about how Windows should run a non-Windows application. For example, a PIF file can