data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

I just got an e-mail from intel@shrapnelgames.com that had no subject heading and no message. All that the e-mail had was a data.pif attachment.

I'm not going to run or open this attachment unless I find out that it is not a virus. If it is I suspect that someone is trying to give a bad rep to shrapnelgames.

So whom should I notify about this e-mail?

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Edit: my my my, a quick virus scan and I find that the data.pif contains the WORM MYDOOM.a virus.

yes indeed, I think someone is trying to give shrapnelgames a bad rep. I seriously doubt that they sent the virus, but I have no way to trace the e-mail so I unfortunately cannot help find the evil vile scumm that sent the e-mail.

Oh well, another virus that failed to pass my common sense protection scheme.

Cheers, again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ January 30, 2004, 22:06: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

Actually, it sounds more like some random player who has intel@shrapnelgames.com in their address book, who got a virus.

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

you're probably right SJ, so if any of you have my sympatico e-mail address in your address book, please scan your systems for viruses.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Edit: I'm so glad I don't use Outlook Express. I would have been infected 100 times if I did. Oh, and I keep my address book empty. I use the 'keep one e-mail from every sender in my in-box' technique of holding the addresses. This way I am not responsible for helping to spread viruses.

[ January 30, 2004, 22:14: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

I have Debian Gnu/Linux setup as email server. With Spamassassin and clamav for cleaning out spam and virusses. Works like a charm and i don't need to worry about those pesky bugs. Anyway, there are always going to be people who open such an email.

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

I think I have a virus because I keep getting returned emails from random places I've never heard of... unfortunately no virus scanner I've tried has been able to find the problem yet... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

Some (all, in my case) of those random return emails ARE viruses.

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You can very easily disable the preview pane, and then you would not be infected at all if you just delete the email and don't open it.

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

how can you be infected from the preview pane?

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

That MyDoom virus is nasty. One of my coworkers got it from an email a few days ago. He opened the message which had as its subject "Hi" and there was just a "document.pif" attachment which he opened. Then a couple of other people got infected Messages from him, at which point the infection was discovered. The computer administrator spent an hour cleaning up and fixing the infected machine.

Re: data.pif from [email]intel@shrapnelgames.com[/email]????
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If the message has HTML or JavaScript which dl's/triggers/activates/opens/whatever a virus or an attachment, the preview pane will execute that code when the message is selected. Yet another great idea ruined by short sight and shorter production deadlines at M$. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif I think most people would rather risk viruses than have to double-click on their Messages to open them--after all, that's double the effort! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif