The nice thing about using a Wintel machine on the internet is the thrill of
avoiding viruses, no? Which is why you should do your real work on an
offline Mac, and let Windows take the punches on the net. The ONLY thing
that works good on Windows is IE and Outlook/OE. So it is a useful machine
for the net, but that's about it. And if you don't keep important data on
it, you just format the disk and reinstall. A half-hour process that keeps
you healthy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:04 AM
Subject: Stupid email trick warning.
> 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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