Sinister: ease your virus in the sea (PLEASE READ)

[Kenneth P Y Chu]

Please read: This is a public health message for sinister members.

I think a few of you (especially those who have posted recently) would have 
been receiving mysterious e-mail messages from various members of the list.  
Titled Re: Sinister: whatever your message was.  With some kind of 
attachments like Card.doc.pif or great music.mp3.pif.  They are mostly 
characteristically 40k in size.  And the tell tale sign is the ".PIF" 
extension in the file name, "great music.mp3.pif" may *look* like an mp3 
file, but it isn't because the extension is actaully .pif which is a 
runnable program (and thus, probably a virus, why else would it be 
disguising itself as an mp3).

I think this virus transmits itself by replying to every message you receive 
with a virus, and therefore something like this list would be very 
vulnerable as everytime you post someone would send you a virus (it's ok as 
long as you don't open the attachment) and so please, be careful.

If you think you have a virus (e.g. if you've opened something like that 
recently - for example a supposed mp3 file that did nothing).  Write me and 
I'll find out how to get rid of the virus for you.  Or if you're a pretty 
girl looking for love, write me too. :-)

Finally if you're an expert on virus removal please shed some lights as to 
how to get rid of these e-mail viruses.

No puns today, with the seriousness of this virus talk I felt a pun would be 
ill-humoured.  ahem.  May all your computers be disease-free.

Love and Red Bulls
Ken

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