Well, I received it from a friend who doesn't live in the West; but I did
not run any virus check on it. So far, it hasn't done any harm to my
machines.
Susan, I converted it to PDF and upoloaded it to esnips.com
Good wishes,
Iskandar
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Susan Maneck wrote:
It might be Iskandar's presentation, in which case it is safe.
But I didn't see any way of opening the file anyhow.
On 1/24/08, Skygram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear friends,
Several years ago I received a similar PowerPoint presentation on the Faith
from a friend serving in the holy land. It held a very bad "Trojan" that
totally destroyed my computer's motherboard.
At that time it was discovered to originate in Serbia. The IT people in the
holy land denied that it originated with them. However a Trojan of this kind
are not easily discovered by any existing Anti-virus programs that I am
aware of, even now at this late date. And this PPS file did in fact pass
through their systems and it also passed through the Israeli government
systems as well. This particular Trojan depends upon a program like
PowerPoint to execute itself.
So I would strongly warn my fellow listers about receiving and opening
files of this type.
I am not saying that this current PPS file from Lara is a bad one. But all
of you using IBM-PC type computers should think twice before opening it.
If you do open it and it is a dangerous file. It will probably open up
looking very normal and give you a lovely presentation that would only
encourage you to send it on to other friends on the Internet, all the while
it will begin working in the background of your computer to inflict it's
damage. And this damage will not make itself known to you until much later
when you won't directly associate it with the PowerPoint presentation that
you opened today.
I am hoping that this list doesn't allow file attachments of this type.
Good luck,
Bill
By the way, I have spent the better part of 15 years working in computer
security in one form or another and even I have been nailed by these things.
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