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)

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, Pla

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"

2004-01-19 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 fi

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 virolo

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 exec

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 refer

Re: VIRUS: "Re: Pentax needs USM and IS"

2004-01-19 Thread Jostein
ubject: Re: VIRUS: "Re: Pentax needs USM and IS" > 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 :-) >

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 :-) > > > >I

Vs: VIRUS: "Re: Pentax needs USM and IS"

2004-01-19 Thread Raimo Korhonen
iesti- Lähettäjä: 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]>

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(*)

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 so