virus?

hmm i just got an e-mail with this attached
Old Excel Documents.lnk.pif its 96KB im not going to open the attachment as I never do when im suspicious or if it comes from an address i dont know, but a google search brought up nothing so it could be something new. But the odd thing is in the subject it says Pipex Sales witch is a ISP I e-mailed not so long ago about there service, yet the e-amil it came from is [email protected] witch I dont think has anything to do with pipex.

kill it. they can always resend information if its vital.

go trendmicro.com and do that online scanner service they offer. That will tell you if its a virus or not.

odd thing is this is the second one ive had in the last few days and before this I think i must of had one in about 2 years.


EDIT: Ill delete it, its pretty obvious as no excel docment use a .pif file extension that I know of. What file extension is .pif anyway?

What did the email content say?

The w32 klez virus/worm once it infects your computer sends itself to all your email contacts (one might be you for some reasion) They use pre selected but usually short things like:

Regauding your application--or
see attachment etc.

All the diff versions of w32 have diff subject matters and I easily detect mine with norton av2003 (automatically)

Ive deleted it and cant rememeber what it said now, it was something like "the documents you requested" or somethign along those lines, i didnt ask for anything to be sent by the way