Date: 02 Mar 2004 22:53:49 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: lee@slaughters.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email account utilization warning. Message-ID: <1078286029.76351.2.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <40454A3A.5010709@slaughters.com> References: <cbnhckfqlptpshbuuat@FreeBSD.org> <40454A3A.5010709@slaughters.com>
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:00, lee slaughter wrote: > staff@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > >Dear user of "FreeBSD.org" mailing system, > > > >Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, > >to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free > >auto-forwarding service. > > > >For more information see the attached file. > > > attachment is .pif > "file" thinks it's DOS exe. > man -k can't find it. > what is it? > gracias.......... > a newbie > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" PIF files are Windows Program Information Files, dating from the days of Windows 3.1. I am surprised they still work - but it seems that they do. They have executable content, and are now being used to spread malicious software. They are perfectly harmless on a FreeBSD or Linux machine - but be very careful not to run them on a Windows machine.
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