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New MSN virus floating around. DON'T ACCEPT ANY PIFs.
2005-01-19, 10:11 PM #1
My post about it on the DevArt forums.
http://forum.deviantart.com/devart/general/359016/

Lets just hope not too many people fall for this.
*insert some joke about pasta and fruit scuffles*
2005-01-19, 10:17 PM #2
I enjoy my privacy so i don't use any messengers, so I love how this doesn't apply to me.
2005-01-19, 10:19 PM #3
I dont accept things from people unless I know what it is. If people shared the same intelligence, this thing wouldnt happen. Already like 20 people I know got it.
2005-01-19, 10:37 PM #4
What the hell is a PIF?
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-01-19, 10:42 PM #5
It's the virus filetype. Duh.
I'm just a little boy.
2005-01-19, 11:46 PM #6
Quote:
Originally posted by Freelancer
What the hell is a PIF?
As I recall, it's the suffix of some kind of microsoft package filetype or something. I can't remember.


Also, if you're reading this post, you've been infected with a new virus type!
Catloaf, meet mouseloaf.
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2005-01-20, 1:46 AM #7
Weren't .pifs those files you needed in Windows 3.11 to make a Windows icon for a DOS program..?

Hard to remember. It has been almost 10 years since Win95 was released and things like that vanished. Maybe it has some new meaning nowadays.
Frozen in the past by ICARUS
2005-01-20, 4:11 AM #8
Quote:
Originally posted by lassev
Weren't .pifs those files you needed in Windows 3.11 to make a Windows icon for a DOS program..?

Yes. PIF - program information file. Basically a "shortcut" in today's Windows environments.
2005-01-20, 1:16 PM #9
Windows 3.11 rocked so hard.
2005-01-20, 1:20 PM #10
Someone sent me one of those MSN viruseseses, and I knew what it was, but I ran it anyways because I am teh genius.
2005-01-20, 1:48 PM #11
Cow was infected, he tried to send me love_me.pif. Lololollolololol.

2005-01-20, 5:16 PM #12
This post has been defaced! [/size]

not really

So if I don't use msn messanger I don't have to worry right?
May the mass times acceleration be with you.
2005-01-20, 5:22 PM #13
I wish someone would send me one of these. Id get a real kick out of it. :D
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2005-01-20, 6:12 PM #14
Yeah, one got sent to me. It struck me as suspicious considering I was sent to "away" the person sending it didn't respond to my request for an explaination as to why I was being sent a file called "drunk_lol" with a file type I didn't recognize.

A quick check on SARC about .pif files, and I alerted the person that they were viral! Then I severed all links with said person. They are dead to me now. :p
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--Hinch
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2005-01-20, 11:00 PM #15
I got it, but I just killed my internet connection and then deleted it, seemed to be fixed after that.

Probably not the most affective way. But it worked.
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2005-01-21, 8:51 AM #16
Woah, a virus warning about MSN that isn't a "DON'T ADD XXXXXX@HOTMAIL.COM OR U DIE" message.

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