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From:David Bateman
Date:3 Sep 2001 at 13:47:59
Subject:[amigactive] Re: .zip.pif

Hello stump@btinternet.com

On 03-Sep-01, you wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> what is a .zip.pif file ?
>
> That'll probably be a virus or some such. It's a DOS program pretending to
> be a Zip file. When people have "Don't display known filetypes" set on the
> Windows box, the file seemingly ends with .zip, so they try to unpack it
> by double clicking, but actually run a program.
>
> Just delete it.
>
> Chris.
>

i have now unzipped it, it was a quake iii version switcher!

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