On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:49, Paul wrote:
> > Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice
> > about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I
> > got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does
> > this virus do? jim
>
> That;s the one. You recognise it because it has 2 extensions. Like
> book1.xls.pif, or resume.doc.pif. (Got these several times last week).
> Pif is Program Information File in windows. Many new win-users don't even
> know about these, but that is an executable extension in winders. So you
> got your first virus in! Congratulations! hahaha!!
>
> The virus seems to destroy harddisk information. Not sure how and what, but
> it is a nasty.
>
> Paul
The SirCam virus/worm selects a file at random from the victim's hard drive
to send. This file can be of any format or type.
Of course, if you use GNU/Linux you have nothing to be afraid of. You can
just laugh as I did :-)
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
