My co-worker and I both received emails yesterday with *.pif attachments.
These are usually viruses. We both received emails from
"*photocircuits.com" with the *.pif attachments. If you receive an email
with a very odd subject and body content and with the *.pif attachment,
don't open it! Do a shift delete on it to permanently delete it.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] Strange email...possibly a virus
> I strongly recommend POPFile if you are on a POP3 mail server. This is a
> Bayesian mail sorter (for example, you can set up any number of
> mailboxes for different types of mail, including spam, of course). I've
> been using it for 18 months, along with virus detection (I use Norton)
> and a firewall (ZoneAlarm), of course. All my IPC mail goes into an IPC
> "bucket" from which it is sorted into general, TN, LF, EN by my e-mail
> client, while all the "out-of-office" messages go into my spam bucket. I
> have six other buckets for other mail categories. My current accuracy
> figures for the automatic sorting is 99.3%, a little down from my
> average at the moment (average is ~99.6%). Over the past six months, I
> think I've had 3 spam messages reach a "ham" bucket.
>
> It does require training on errors, but you should reach at least a 98%
> accuracy level after, say, 1,000 or so messages.
>
> You can find this at http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ -- it is open
> source, therefore free.
>
> And, yes, if you wish it, it will put all the offers of money into a
> spam bucket, along with enticements to sexual pleasures, suggestions to
> be ordained or to buy your PhD, quotations for spam software or office
> supplies, even those with "word salads".
>
> Brian
>
> Steve Gregory wrote:
>
> > Anybody else get this email I've pasted below? I'm sure it's got a virus
> > attached to it...you can see the attached file name.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that Jane's computer isn't infected...her email address
got
> > spoofed somehow. Just curious if anybody else got this email...
> >
> > -Steve Gregory-
> >
> >
> >
> > Subj: Password
> > Date: 04/28/2004 10:21:50 AM Central Daylight Time
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > File: passwords02.pif (17920 bytes) DL Time (TCP/IP): < 1 minute
> > Sent from the Internet (Details)
> >
> > I've your password. Take it easy!
> >
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