It might be Iskandar's presentation, in which case it is safe.
But I didn't see any way of opening the file anyhow.
On 1/24/08, Skygram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Several years ago I received a similar PowerPoint presentation on the Faith
> from a friend serving in the holy land. It held a very bad "Trojan" that
> totally destroyed my computer's motherboard.
>
> At that time it was discovered to originate in Serbia. The IT people in the
> holy land denied that it originated with them. However a Trojan of this kind
> are not easily discovered by any existing Anti-virus programs that I am
> aware of, even now at this late date. And this PPS file did in fact pass
> through their systems and it also passed through the Israeli government
> systems as well. This particular Trojan depends upon a program like
> PowerPoint to execute itself.
>
> So I would strongly warn my fellow listers about receiving and opening
> files of this type.
>
> I am not saying that this current PPS file from Lara is a bad one. But all
> of you using IBM-PC type computers should think twice before opening it.
>
> If you do open it and it is a dangerous file. It will probably open up
> looking very normal and give you a lovely presentation that would only
> encourage you to send it on to other friends on the Internet, all the while
> it will begin working in the background of your computer to inflict it's
> damage. And this damage will not make itself known to you until much later
> when you won't directly associate it with the PowerPoint presentation that
> you opened today.
>
> I am hoping that this list doesn't allow file attachments of this type.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Bill
>
> By the way, I have spent the better part of 15 years working in computer
> security in one form or another and even I have been nailed by these things.
>
>
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