Re: [Nolug] Am I getting viruses?

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 08:43, Christopher Porter wrote:
> You might have received the W32/Sobig@MM e-mail worm. It's comes as
> wither a .pif or .pi attachment. You can read more about it here:
>
> http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99950.htm

That's exactly it...

> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Twice in the past few days, I've gotten files ".pif" files emailed
> > to me as attachments. Running strings(1) shows stuff like:
> > !This program cannot be run in DOS mode.
> > kernel32.dll
> > user32.dll
> > GetModuleHandleA
> > MessageBoxA
> >
> > So, *is* someone trying to infect me?

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