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bork[e]
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What's the deal with MSN...

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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
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Post by PhoeniX »

Yea, you don't open .pif files. Other than that; no :)
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bitWISE
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Post by bitWISE »

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
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Post by MaCaBr3 »

Only nerds know what pifs are.

*hides*
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Arkleseizure
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Post by Arkleseizure »

MaCaBr3 wrote:Only nerds know what pifs are.

*hides*
Windows Program Information File....did I win a prize?
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Tormentius
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Post by Tormentius »

Tell your contacts to use some form of antivirus.
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Pho
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Post by Pho »

MaCaBr3 wrote:Only nerds know what pifs are.

*hides*
Pif off :icon32:
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FlamingTP
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Post by FlamingTP »

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
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Post by Pext »

what's a pif?
i only remember reading the extension back in 3.11 days.
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Post by corncobman »

It's a pissed off gif
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phantasmagoria
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Post by phantasmagoria »

i thought pif was a graphics file, i swear my first scanner used to save images as pifs..
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glossy
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Post by glossy »

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
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Post by dmmh »

install trillian...problem solved. oh, that, and dont have 12 year olds on your contactlist
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Post by glossy »

trillian won't fix shit, dmmh...
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MKJ
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Post by MKJ »

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 :paranoid:
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