email attachments

[dave evans]

re: the virus email attachments: technically they're not viruses, so may not
show up on virus scanners.... they tend to SEEM to be some sort of attached
Word document (. doc ) or Excel spreadsheet (.xls) file, but the attached
file is atcually called something like "October Costings.doc.pif"  (or
".....xls.pif").

The . pif extension is the telling part; it stands for Program Information
File, and if opened it can perform unwanted disk commands.... like wiping
data, formatting disks etc etc

As someone else has said- if you don't know the sender, don't open an
attachment, and if you do know the sender, is there any reason for them to
be sending you their latest business projections for the year? The virus
part of this whole affair is what's doing the sending of the files; by
scanning Outlook address books or whatever.  A great link for virus
information: http://www.symantec.com/  who have the latest info on real
bugs, hoaxes and suchlike

dave

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