I have received a couple of e-mails this month with attachments with *.pif filenames and a blank *.txt attachment. The messages had no text, and I did not know the senders -their addresses began with an _underscore, like _whoosis@significant.com . I e-mailed one of the senders, and the message was returned as an invalid address. The message titles seemed ok - one had Dick Holdstock's webite as a message title, www.dickholdstock.com, I think. A grey box opened shen I viewed the e-mail, asking whether I wanted to run or save the attachment, and I chose "cancel."
I deleted the messages and haven't had any problems. Were they viruses, or what?

I did get a worm attached to an e-mail from a friend, but my antivirus program intercepted it. On these *pif attachments, I got the grey box, but nothing from Norton antivirus.

Can anybody tell me what it was I received?

-Joe Offer-