Virus

[Guest Richie M]

Just a warning - i've just been sent a virus to my orange.net email address :(

If you get a message from [email protected] saying Here's that sample - Document003.pif attached; don't open it!

I've posted about it here because i don't really use the address, but i used in my Homescreen layout :shock: nice people out there :evil:

Another thing is that this is the email account that i usually retrieve on my phone - but i was suspicious when i saw the heard i my text alert :lol:

just would of been interesting what would of happened on my phone ;)

Probably nothing but i don't wanna risk it :roll:

[Guest midnight]

oh, that damn virus is doing the rounds at the moment, and if it gets onto your system then mails itself to all you contacts aswell

[Guest Richie M]

Anyone brave enough to test it on there phone :shock: :?:

[Guest midnight]

dont think it can run pif files can it? (dont quote me on that)

[Guest spacemonkey]

"This application is not signed so will not run on your Smartphone 2002 device"...

pity about the FOOLS who decerted...

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Guest Richie M]

In properties it comes up as a DOS program :? so in theory i think it could run :?:

[Guest fraser]

As far as I know, a pif file is a DOS shortcut. It's like a *.lnk file, except it also contains information about the DOS run time environment to use, what type of memory etc. Old school stuff.

They have to point to another exe for them to do anything. I doubt that exe exists on the phone, and even if it did, I'm sure *.pif files aren't associated with anything.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

have not seen this one for a while, good job I have norton as I was

getting this little bugger daily a few months back.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

People shouldn't be running attachemnt's they aren't expecting anyway... ;p

[Guest Richie M]

People shouldn't be running attachemnt's they aren't expecting anyway... ;p

Exactly, which is why i didn't (well not intentionally anyway :roll: i clicked open instead of cancel :shock: Doh!) good job we've got an ace firewall at work and i work in IT so my sys. ad. was cool about it, he then downloaded it to add to his collection! ha ha :lol:

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Apparently theres a store of viruses from the past 5 or 6 years on a box at work somewhere....now, where did i leave that usb CD burner...

[Guest HelloDave]

Fraser's right - pifs date back to Windows 3.x when they specified the settings to run a particular DOS program in a Windows DOS box - basically another type of shortcut. AFAIK pifs can't run anything themselves - they just link to another program (*.com, *.exe etc), although I seem to remember you could define a custom autoexec.bat within the file which could do some harm I suppose. Only other thing they could do is point to the command line Windows Script interpreter (cscript.exe) as another way of running js/vbs files, but then you'd need a script file to run.

I'm 99.99% sure pifs wouldn't run on an SPV - they're not a Win CE executable, and the SPV can't run batch files or DOS programs (AFAIK!). Even if the pif did run, if it's a script virus the SPV has no scripting support, so nothing should happen.

[Guest fraser]

I wouldn't be so dismissive of people opening attachments they don't expect. Most of the attachments flying around are jokes etc, and it's hard to assume that some non-computer savy person isn't going to open them.

I just wish Flash files weren't exes, they are a potential breeding ground for viruses. Completely unnessesary!