[X Newbies] Viruses on X

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 12:18 Canada/Eastern, TheMacintoshLady 
wrote:

> According to the "this program can not run in DOS mode" designation in
> the code, .pif and .scr are programs, .scr being screen saver, not sure
> what .pif is.

Depending on the context, .scr can stand for a screen saver, a script, 
or even for a format (derived from PCX) for DOS screen shots. As to 
.pif, usually (not always) it stands for Program Information File, 
which is basically a collection of settings required to run a DOS 
programme under Windows. Some malwares use .scr and .pif files to 
spread themselves.

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