.PIF - what file is this...? Virus?
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Hi
Got an email today from "warren" wwho i have never met as far as i can tell.
The email address was @spin.co.uk
The title was "cell spacing"
Anyway i clicked on message and it immediately wanted to open a file which was C: temporarysomethingsomethingsomething15.pif
I cancelled it twice, but it kept opening, so i pressed the open option, rather than safe but was met with lots of hard drive noise and not much else (my computer is very old and only really used for internet etc, but i don't particularly want to go through formatting etc everything.
Never heard of .pif files before.
COmputer is acting a bit odd now - but it may just be my imagination i suppose.
Can anyone enlighten me what a .pif file is?? I am very careful with my address and it is not given out willy-nilly.
Thanks
Got an email today from "warren" wwho i have never met as far as i can tell.
The email address was @spin.co.uk
The title was "cell spacing"
Anyway i clicked on message and it immediately wanted to open a file which was C: temporarysomethingsomethingsomething15.pif
I cancelled it twice, but it kept opening, so i pressed the open option, rather than safe but was met with lots of hard drive noise and not much else (my computer is very old and only really used for internet etc, but i don't particularly want to go through formatting etc everything.
Never heard of .pif files before.
COmputer is acting a bit odd now - but it may just be my imagination i suppose.
Can anyone enlighten me what a .pif file is?? I am very careful with my address and it is not given out willy-nilly.
Thanks
Bugger - well that hasn't happened tp me for a long while...
I can't tell you the full name because i have since deleted the email. When i heard lots of hard drive whirring i reset the computer. I am just searching for it now....
Any ideas what it might do?
Right - searched *15.pif and nothing found - is that good or bad?
It was trying to open something in the temp internet folder - made me think dialler straightaway? Thoughts?
Thanks so far...
I can't tell you the full name because i have since deleted the email. When i heard lots of hard drive whirring i reset the computer. I am just searching for it now....
Any ideas what it might do?
Right - searched *15.pif and nothing found - is that good or bad?
It was trying to open something in the temp internet folder - made me think dialler straightaway? Thoughts?
Thanks so far...
The day after i got the .PIF attachment i got an email from my girlfriends hotmail address yet she hadn't sent me one....
So from the info supplied above about email addresses and virus, i decided enough was enough. Have now reformatted drive and hopefully sorted it.
Incidently i found the .PIF attachment using the find files/folders option and removed it but had already received teh dodgy email above.
I have adusted my "mark as read after..." time for longer so i can view the message before it tries anything funny and will look towards some of the progs listed.
I decided to reformat instead of trust that a simple act like deleting the .PIF command would rid me of any probs....
Thanks for the insight!
Buff
So from the info supplied above about email addresses and virus, i decided enough was enough. Have now reformatted drive and hopefully sorted it.
Incidently i found the .PIF attachment using the find files/folders option and removed it but had already received teh dodgy email above.
I have adusted my "mark as read after..." time for longer so i can view the message before it tries anything funny and will look towards some of the progs listed.
I decided to reformat instead of trust that a simple act like deleting the .PIF command would rid me of any probs....
Thanks for the insight!
Buff
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