Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 10:57, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I

Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:30 pm, Brian Parish wrote: snip They vary in size up to about 1.4MB. The thing that has me interested is that there are heaps of them and they are an EXACT match for the keywords used for the search. i.e. Search for never take stephen kuhn seriously and you'll

[newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-24 Thread Brian Parish
I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times, whatever I enter as search criteria, I get back heaps of whatever-I-typed-in.exe files found. I have always ignored them, but does anyone have a clear idea what these are about? cheers Brian

Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-24 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times,

Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 13:47, Brian Parish wrote: I am using gtk-gnutella and have noticed that in recent times, whatever I enter as search criteria, I get back heaps of whatever-I-typed-in.exe files found. I have always ignored them, but does anyone have a clear idea what these are about?

Re: [newbie] OT gnutella finds loads of .exe files

2004-07-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 10:57, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, If you check the size and they are around 20 to 75 kB, they are probably Windows viruses. I learned that the hard way. Ignoring them is the best option. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 24 July 2004 11:47 pm, Brian Parish wrote: I