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What's the deal with MSN...
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:20 pm
by bork[e]
(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?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:35 pm
by PhoeniX
Yea, you don't open .pif files. Other than that; no
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:54 am
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:01 am
by MaCaBr3
Only nerds know what pifs are.
*hides*
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:08 am
by Arkleseizure
MaCaBr3 wrote:Only nerds know what pifs are.
*hides*
Windows Program Information File....did I win a prize?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:05 am
by Tormentius
Tell your contacts to use some form of antivirus.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:42 am
by Pho
MaCaBr3 wrote:Only nerds know what pifs are.
*hides*
Pif off :icon32:
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:50 am
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
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:31 am
by Pext
what's a pif?
i only remember reading the extension back in 3.11 days.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:37 am
by corncobman
It's a pissed off gif
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:53 am
by phantasmagoria
i thought pif was a graphics file, i swear my first scanner used to save images as pifs..
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:56 am
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:13 am
by dmmh
install trillian...problem solved. oh, that, and dont have 12 year olds on your contactlist
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:41 am
by glossy
trillian won't fix shit, dmmh...
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:45 am
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
