What is a pif file?

[Lager]

What is a pif file?

 

Whatever you do, don't open it.

EDIT: I'm serious.

 

[loup garou]

<chant>OPEN IT! OPEN IT! OPEN IT!</chant>

 

[Lager]

Thanks for the heads up.

To Werk:

I'm coming to slice you up.

 

[DaveSimmons]

it's a nude pic of Anna Kournikova of course.







...or a virus/worm.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Lager
Thanks for the heads up.

To Werk:

I'm coming to slice you up.

aaaaah!
*hides in closet*

 

[Lore]

Courtesy of a quick Google search:

Short for Program InFormation file, a type of file that holds information about how Windows should run a non-Windows application. For example, a PIF file can contain instructions for executing a DOS application in the Windows environment. These instructions can include the amount of memory to use, the path to the executable file, and what type of window to use. PIF files have a .pif extension .

 

[Vincent]

PIF stands for program information file.

It's a holdover from the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 days that tells Windows about the memory and graphics interface expected by a DOS program.

 

[hevnsnt]

if it came in your email open it. If it is on your desktop don't.

actually, reverse that.

 

[Lager]

Thanks. Just for information, can this be cleared out using a anti-virus program?

 

[RVN]

Here's a good site to bookmark for file extension info ...FILExt - The File Extension Source

 

[EagleKeeper]

Delete it.

Virus potential.

Especially if it is from someone that you do not know.

IF you must look at it, use Notepad.

There should be no need for a PIF file to be used within the current OSs over the past 5 years.