permaculture

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

> From: Mitra <mitra_lists@earth.path.net>
>
> I'm a techie, on all these non-techie lists, I guess its time to write
> something useful to repay all the good advice I've received ...
>
> In particular do NOT EVER OPEN ANYTHING ENDING IN .EXE .VBS or .SCR  these
> are really commonly used for viruses. There have been programs sent around
> as one of these which trashed systems but just looked like something fun.

Another one to watch for is .PIF which is something like Program
Information
File, basically a program in disguise. Quite a common extension for
viruses.

        Rich
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