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Blue Mountain .pif files a virus?
Hi,
I received the last days two messages with: "Hi I sent you an Ecard from Bluemountain. Including a .pif file. Unfortunately I opened the file. No ecard showed up, but my computer got slow. Especially, with text programs (Word, Outlook)
I have the latest Norton antivirus (with weekly updates) but it didn't recognised it as a virus. Secondly I don't know the senders of the mail, as well as, their email adresses are not valid - they bounce back.
Is this a new virus. And more important is there a solution to?
I received the last days two messages with: "Hi I sent you an Ecard from Bluemountain. Including a .pif file. Unfortunately I opened the file. No ecard showed up, but my computer got slow. Especially, with text programs (Word, Outlook)
I have the latest Norton antivirus (with weekly updates) but it didn't recognised it as a virus. Secondly I don't know the senders of the mail, as well as, their email adresses are not valid - they bounce back.
Is this a new virus. And more important is there a solution to?
I haven't heard of such a thing. But then, how do you know it was an actual Blue Mountain .pif file?
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Yhe mail says:
"To view your eCard, open the attachment
If you have any comments or questions, please visit
http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/index.pd
Thanks for using BlueMountain.com."
This is not the regular mail! I informed them already, but they have no answer.
After a double visrusscan with the latest update (no virusses found) and a double check with ad-aware software, the comp is fast again... Word works perfect again...I Don't know??
"To view your eCard, open the attachment
If you have any comments or questions, please visit
http://www.bluemountain.com/customer/index.pd
Thanks for using BlueMountain.com."
This is not the regular mail! I informed them already, but they have no answer.
After a double visrusscan with the latest update (no virusses found) and a double check with ad-aware software, the comp is fast again... Word works perfect again...I Don't know??
ASKER
With both mails, if you send a reply, the following happens:
"This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.
Recipient: <Eggler68@hotmail.com>
Reason: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Please reply to Postmaster@chello.nl
if you feel this message to be in error."
"This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.
Recipient: <Eggler68@hotmail.com>
Reason: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Please reply to Postmaster@chello.nl
if you feel this message to be in error."
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They also have a free online scan you can use called housecall give your email and country then let it load the files it needs then run the scan
www.housecall.antivirus.com is a good first step. go there and scan your machine. I do not believe Micorosft Outlook would have let you open pif, but if it would, if you had symantec norton antivirus 2003, i believe it would have scanned it before allowing it in.
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