That attachment is a virus. As a rule, avoid opening any file that has a .pif extension when attached with an email. I have had them coming from various sources in the past.
Generally, it is a virus that is spoofing someone's id. It probably came from someone else who has Philip's email id in the address box. In a previous case which we had investigated (out of curiosity), the virus had actually picked up email ids from saved messages, saved html pages and even text files and word files saved on the hdd of the infected pc. Of course, if you dont use ms-windows, I dont think you get affected. Regards Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "q u a s i" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: IMP -- RE:[ILUG-BOM] Not so Random > Philip, > Your email on Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:37:24 +0530 (IST) with message id > [EMAIL PROTECTED] had a stock-obc.xls.pif file > attached to it!!! Do you know anything about it? > > ! > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
