To: tallhappy
Why is a ".pif" file bad? Or is it? Will Norton's Anti-Virus pick it up?
32 posted on
01/27/2004 7:11:55 PM PST by
GreatOne
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To: GreatOne
A .pif file is an old DOS configuration file.
It is an executable file.
Along with .scr and .bat files
To: GreatOne
Why is a ".pif" file bad? Or is it? Will Norton's Anti-Virus pick it up? A ".pif" file is a Windows program information file and can essentially be used to call up an executable ".exe" file that can do bad things to your computer.
Outlook blocks ".exe" and ".pif" attached files by default, nowadays, so folks don't just click on an executable or pif to load a virus, trojan, etc.
35 posted on
01/27/2004 7:31:01 PM PST by
New Horizon
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To: GreatOne
Why is a ".pif" file bad? No, a pif file is just a pif file. This virus puts down files with various names and uses .pif suffixes, .zip or others.
The virus software will pick it up if it is actually a virus file. That was my point in context of the earlier post.
41 posted on
01/27/2004 10:58:48 PM PST by
tallhappy
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