}Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:10:58 +0200
}From: Wolfgang Redtenbacher
}Subject: Re: wrong extension?
}
}J�rel DD Arbaugh wrote on Sat, 6 Jul 2002
}15:29:08 PDT:
}
} >.pif ??? That is normally a configuration ("Properties") file
} >for running a DOS program under windows. [...]
}
}Theoretically, you are right. However, all windows versions
}happen to execute files with ".pif" extension even if their
}content has nothing to do with (harmless) configuration data
}produced by the PIF editor.
}
}Several viruses (e.g. the "Anna Kournikowa" virus) use the fact
}that the extension ".pif" is normally always suppressed in the
}windows explorer (unless you manually fiddle around in the
}registry). The content of the "PIF" files they send you, however,
}are standard MS-DOS exe files (starting with "MZ").
}
}Needless to say, that an ".EXE" file can do practically
}everything to your hard disk ... :-(
OUCH! Well, in the event of using the properties option on
those, you would see the full name in the first (or only) screen. And
even if it had real PIF data, that data could have been a command to
delete some critical file, or everything on the hard disk!
Thanks for the added info!
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