Naw.  winmail.dat is what Outlook uses to encapsulate attachments and rtf markup data.  The format is called "TNEF" - if you're that interested there is a free decoder for Windows and Linux called fentun (http://www.fentun.com/) I have no association with fentun, but I do use it.  Most of the time the winmail.dat files are empty (just contain some rtf data that I can't - or don't care to - see in Eudora). 

If there's an attachment in the winmail.dat it's possible the file contains a virus, but it's the attached file with the virus and not the winmail.dat.  Winmail.dat is not a sign of a virus, just a sign of M$ and their tendency to make their products incompatible with everyone else's.

-Russ



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