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bork[e] The Borked One Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 4708	Posted: 03-07-2005 02:20 PM                  (Messenger) Anyone else getting BS files from your contacts? Shit like "Lopez in Shower" "Me on Vacation" blah blah blah...If so, I haven't found a sure fix for this, the file infects a file in C:/Windows/system32...I forget the actual file name, but has there been an official removal tool for this or what?
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PhoeniX Risen From The Ashes Joined: 03 Aug 2000 Posts: 26774	Posted: 03-07-2005 02:35 PM                  Yea, you don't open .pif files. Other than that; no
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bitWISE god xor reason Joined: 08 Dec 1999 Posts: 21100	Posted: 03-07-2005 05:54 PM                    Yeah a bunch of my friends have it. The problem is that no one knows what a .pif is so they aren't afraid to open it.
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MaCaBr3 *wank* Joined: 15 Nov 1999 Posts: 6696	Posted: 03-07-2005 06:01 PM                  Only nerds know what pifs are. *hides* _________________
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Arkleseizure Insane Quaker Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 388	Posted: 03-07-2005 06:08 PM                  MaCaBr3 wrote: Only nerds know what pifs are. *hides* Windows Program Information File....did I win a prize?
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Tormentius The voices in your head Joined: 14 Dec 2002 Posts: 10054	Posted: 03-07-2005 07:05 PM                    Tell your contacts to use some form of antivirus.
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Pho Risen From The Ashes Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 56	Posted: 03-07-2005 08:42 PM                  MaCaBr3 wrote: Only nerds know what pifs are. *hides* Pif off
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FlamingTP Related to this Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 1092	Posted: 03-07-2005 08:50 PM                  Never got any of those but I did get an error message through e-mail with msnm. Wont bother with that crap anyway
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Pext Who's that man, Mommy? Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 5316	Posted: 03-08-2005 12:31 AM                  what's a pif? i only remember reading the extension back in 3.11 days.
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corncobman Gomu Gomu no..... Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1902	Posted: 03-08-2005 01:37 AM                  It's a pissed off gif _________________ -It is not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end. (Douglas Adams)- -An eyeful a day is bloody fantastic!-
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phantasmagoria Bück Dich Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 6228	Posted: 03-08-2005 02:53 AM                  i thought pif was a graphics file, i swear my first scanner used to save images as pifs.. _________________ [size=85]
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glossy Elite Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 6222	Posted: 03-08-2005 02:56 AM                  been getting a lot of these as well it's great sending the message back along with "you've spammed this to me 4 times already -- i think you have a virus"; they freak out and die. or something.
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dmmh Elite Joined: 04 Jan 2001 Posts: 28249	Posted: 03-08-2005 03:13 AM                  install trillian...problem solved. oh, that, and dont have 12 year olds on your contactlist _________________ And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine patris, et fili, et spiritus sancti.
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glossy Elite Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 6222	Posted: 03-08-2005 03:41 AM                  trillian won't fix shit, dmmh...
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MKJ Messatsu Ko Jy-ouu Joined: 24 Nov 2000 Posts: 44139	Posted: 03-08-2005 03:45 AM                    i installed trillian the first time someone tried to worm me. never had any problems again. woohoo ofcourse, trillian wont help against the general stupidity of the common folk who run pifs and obscure exes _________________
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