Hi all,

Today I got an email from one "Steven Pinette" entitles "Dialog letter
june". The text of this letter reads:

"
Hi! How are you?

I send you this file in order to have your advice

See you later. Thanks
"

Rather lame English, huh?

Examination of the attached "letter" reveals it to be a file entitled
"Dialog letter june.doc.pif".  On a MSDOS/Windows PC, the .pif extension
identifies a file as being a "Program Information File", that is a file that
provides Windows with instructions to run a given DOS program, and the
parameters with which to do so.  I'd be willing to bet that in this case,
the PIF file instructs the PC to run, say "format c: /q y". In another words
this is undoubtably a trojan of some sort.

The reason I'm mentioning this on the list, is because I use this email
address exclusively for list correspondence and eBay sales, so there is a
fair chance that a malicious user could be harvesting email addresses from
these lists in some lame attempt to be some sort of cYb3r733r0r1s7 just like
in the newspapers. This thing won't affect Macs, but I'm not the only one
who uses a PC here so look out.

Anyone who wants a forward of this email is welcome to it.

P.S. In a couple of days I'll be nuking my PC's hard drives so I might just
take the time to see exactly what this thing does.

Cheers,
Adam.


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