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And I got a .scr file with an invitation to look at it...blocked sender
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Watkins" <watkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Steve Carton" <scarton1@xxxxxxxx>; <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<security@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:41 PM
Subject: POSSIBLE VIRUS DO NOT OPEN MSG CONTAINING IMAGE.PIF FROM STEVE
CARTON (or anyone else) Re: Re: [RT] Fwd: NexTrend Analysis
> Steve Carton, or someone presuming to be this person, sent to me directly
a
> reply to my public message with an attachment "IMAGES.PIF"
>
> Very clever. PIF as an extension is a MS DOS compatibility shim, the old
> Program Information File, and as such is executable on a great many
computers.
>
> Opened the attachment in NOTEPAD to view the contents, and its an
> executable file.
>
> Clever in that PIF almost looks like GIF and some would open it without
> thinking.
>
> Reporting this to security@xxxxxxxx; however its probably not from this
> individual.
>
> For my part in reducing this problem, I will never send attachments to the
> list.
>
> Sure seems like this and/or the Omega list are being targetted.
>
> Michael
>
> At 06:32 PM 4/16/2001 -0700, Steve Carton wrote:
> >'Michael Watkins' wrote: ==== - Hi Eliot,
> >-
> >- I think I posted something on thread, but I'm currently working with
> >- Ensign's product to see if it can fill a hole for me. I still like
> >- Tradestation charts the best, but the issues with it (problems with
> >- Easylanguage for a project I am working on) as well as the ongoing
need to
> >- manage data had me looking around.
> >-
> >- I looked at Ensign a while back (TS SP1 days) and ended up sticking
with TS
> >- all this time; on revisiting Ensign I guess I ...' > Take a look to the
> >attachment.
>
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