* this worries me.Forwarded attachment...
@ Shaun Oliver
` Geoff Shang
` Charles Crawford
0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this.
--
Shaun Oliver
Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Roger Price
Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... this worries me.Forwarded attachment Shaun Oliver @ ` Geoff Shang ` David Poehlman ` (2 more replies) ` Charles Crawford 1 sibling, 3 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi: What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on messages from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure couldn't make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. Geoff. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Geoff Shang @ ` David Poehlman ` Gregory Nowak ` Shaun Oliver 2 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: David Poehlman @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I didn't even recieve it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@uq.net.au> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... Hi: What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on messages from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure couldn't make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. Geoff. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Geoff Shang ` David Poehlman @ ` Gregory Nowak ` Amanda Lee ` Shaun Oliver 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I thought they maybe a diskised virus. Also, how are people not running the other OS supposed to view this? Greg On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:15:09AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on messages > from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure couldn't > make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Gregory Nowak @ ` Amanda Lee ` Janina Sajka 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Amanda Lee @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Unless another program can pick-up this file extension and then execute it, don't see what the worry is all about! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@uic.edu> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > I thought they maybe a diskised virus. Also, how are people not running the other OS supposed to view this? > Greg > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:15:09AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > > Hi: > > > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on messages > > from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure couldn't > > make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. > > > > Geoff. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Amanda Lee @ ` Janina Sajka ` Amanda Lee 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Would you really want to do that, not knowing what the consequences would be? I sure wouldn't. On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Amanda Lee wrote: > Unless another program can pick-up this file extension and then execute it, > don't see what the worry is all about! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@uic.edu> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:54 AM > Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > > > > I thought they maybe a diskised virus. Also, how are people not running > the other OS supposed to view this? > > Greg > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:15:09AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on > messages > > > from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure > couldn't > > > make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. > > > > > > Geoff. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Janina Sajka @ ` Amanda Lee 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Amanda Lee @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup no, of course not but if I know what the file extension is in the first place, as well as whether or not it can be rendered executable, then it's probably harmless. If I don't recognize it then yes, I likely won't go near it. Amanda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > Would you really want to do that, not knowing what the consequences would > be? I sure wouldn't. > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Amanda Lee wrote: > > > Unless another program can pick-up this file extension and then execute it, > > don't see what the worry is all about! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@uic.edu> > > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:54 AM > > Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > > > > > > > I thought they maybe a diskised virus. Also, how are people not running > > the other OS supposed to view this? > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:15:09AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > > > > Hi: > > > > > > > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on > > messages > > > > from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure > > couldn't > > > > make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. > > > > > > > > Geoff. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Geoff Shang ` David Poehlman ` Gregory Nowak @ ` Shaun Oliver ` Gregory Nowak 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I had intended to send more than that attachment if I can find the message it came from I'll send what I originally intended. On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on messages > from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure couldn't > make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno@goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hmmmm, are you sure the rest is more relevent? Greg On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:43:59PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > I had intended to send more than that attachment if I can find the > message it came from I'll send what I originally intended. > On Sun, 20 Jan > 2002, Geoff Shang wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > What exactly is worrying about this attachment? I've seen them on messages > > from windows users before but don't know what they do. but I sure couldn't > > make any sense of it. I'm not real sure why you sent it here. > > > > Geoff. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... this worries me.Forwarded attachment Shaun Oliver ` Geoff Shang @ ` Charles Crawford ` David Poehlman ` (2 more replies) 1 sibling, 3 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Charles Crawford @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup What is the .dat file format? I noticed the attachment and my windows computer does not recognize the file format. It might be one of those ms-word formats that I do not have my word configured for. I hope to have my Linux pine email client going sometime this weekend and so if it is a Lunix format of some flavor, then fine then. -- chrlie. At 03:28 PM 01/19/2002 +1100, you wrote: >sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this. > > >-- >Shaun Oliver > >Marriage is a three ring circus: >engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > >Email: shauno@goanna.net.au >Icq: 76958435 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Charles Crawford @ ` David Poehlman ` Charles Crawford ` Kirk Wood ` Angelo Sonnesso 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: David Poehlman @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup it is an old microsoft mail file format. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... What is the .dat file format? I noticed the attachment and my windows computer does not recognize the file format. It might be one of those ms-word formats that I do not have my word configured for. I hope to have my Linux pine email client going sometime this weekend and so if it is a Lunix format of some flavor, then fine then. -- chrlie. At 03:28 PM 01/19/2002 +1100, you wrote: >sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this. > > >-- >Shaun Oliver > >Marriage is a three ring circus: >engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > >Email: shauno@goanna.net.au >Icq: 76958435 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` David Poehlman @ ` Charles Crawford ` David Poehlman ` Angelo Sonnesso 0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Charles Crawford @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Aha! So how come Ms-Word will not open it? -- Charlie. At 11:23 AM 01/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >it is an old microsoft mail file format. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> >To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:12 AM >Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > > >What is the .dat file format? I noticed the attachment and my windows >computer does not recognize the file format. It might be one of those >ms-word formats that I do not have my word configured for. I hope to >have >my Linux pine email client going sometime this weekend and so if it is a >Lunix format of some flavor, then fine then. > >-- chrlie. >At 03:28 PM 01/19/2002 +1100, you wrote: > >sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this. > > > > > >-- > >Shaun Oliver > > > >Marriage is a three ring circus: > >engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > >Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > >Icq: 76958435 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Charles Crawford @ ` David Poehlman ` Angelo Sonnesso 1 sibling, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: David Poehlman @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup because ms changed formats and now dat is some kind of media extention. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... Aha! So how come Ms-Word will not open it? -- Charlie. At 11:23 AM 01/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: >it is an old microsoft mail file format. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> >To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:12 AM >Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > > >What is the .dat file format? I noticed the attachment and my windows >computer does not recognize the file format. It might be one of those >ms-word formats that I do not have my word configured for. I hope to >have >my Linux pine email client going sometime this weekend and so if it is a >Lunix format of some flavor, then fine then. > >-- chrlie. >At 03:28 PM 01/19/2002 +1100, you wrote: > >sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this. > > > > > >-- > >Shaun Oliver > > > >Marriage is a three ring circus: > >engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > >Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > >Icq: 76958435 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Charles Crawford ` David Poehlman @ ` Angelo Sonnesso 1 sibling, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Angelo Sonnesso @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup The dat files are used by the system. If you do a search for *.dat files in your windows partition, you will fine a bunch of them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:36 AM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > Aha! So how come Ms-Word will not open it? > > -- Charlie. > > At 11:23 AM 01/19/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >it is an old microsoft mail file format. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> > >To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > >Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 11:12 AM > >Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > > > > > >What is the .dat file format? I noticed the attachment and my windows > >computer does not recognize the file format. It might be one of those > >ms-word formats that I do not have my word configured for. I hope to > >have > >my Linux pine email client going sometime this weekend and so if it is a > >Lunix format of some flavor, then fine then. > > > >-- chrlie. > >At 03:28 PM 01/19/2002 +1100, you wrote: > > >sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this. > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Shaun Oliver > > > > > >Marriage is a three ring circus: > > >engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > > -- Roger Price > > > > > >Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > >Icq: 76958435 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Charles Crawford ` David Poehlman @ ` Kirk Wood ` Kirk Wood ` Steve Holmes ` Angelo Sonnesso 2 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Kirk Wood @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup The winmail.dat file is m$ electronic business card. So far nobody has come up with any exploit to ruin the address book. It contains extended information allowing a person to transmit complete contact information for the event that another winblows user adds them to the address book. Generally when m$ uses the extension .dat it is a bianary format that uses a tree structure for storage. For more complete information look up information on the format of the registry. That is the largest example of the format. HAving said this, it doesn't always hold true. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Kirk Wood @ ` Kirk Wood ` Steve Holmes 1 sibling, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Kirk Wood @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I wanted to add after reading other comments: 1) You will never see this attachment inside a m$ mail program. 2) The file was never designed to be opened per se. 3) The file was dropped from being sent out over the black eye from users of other programs. 4) The file could have originated from one of the following: a m$ exchange server outlook outlook express windows messaging client exchange server client 5) The best thing is to simply ignore the attachment and go on with life. 6) If you are inclined, you could put the person into a list of targets for your next virus distribution since they most likely use crappy macroslop products. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Kirk Wood ` Kirk Wood @ ` Steve Holmes 1 sibling, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup <HMMM> Sounds like another proprietory format to be avoided to me. On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kirk Wood wrote: > The winmail.dat file is m$ electronic business card. So far nobody has > come up with any exploit to ruin the address book. It contains extended > information allowing a person to transmit complete contact information for > the event that another winblows user adds them to the address book. > > Generally when m$ uses the extension .dat it is a bianary format that uses > a tree structure for storage. For more complete information look up > information on the format of the registry. That is the largest example of > the format. HAving said this, it doesn't always hold true. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > Nowlan's Theory: > He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from > the next freeway exit. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... ` Charles Crawford ` David Poehlman ` Kirk Wood @ ` Angelo Sonnesso 2 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Angelo Sonnesso @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Dat files are Windows, and dos data files. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford@ACB.org> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:12 AM Subject: Re: this worries me.Forwarded attachment... > What is the .dat file format? I noticed the attachment and my windows > computer does not recognize the file format. It might be one of those > ms-word formats that I do not have my word configured for. I hope to have > my Linux pine email client going sometime this weekend and so if it is a > Lunix format of some flavor, then fine then. > > -- chrlie. > At 03:28 PM 01/19/2002 +1100, you wrote: > >sorry for the attachment but I thought you'd like to see this. > > > > > >-- > >Shaun Oliver > > > >Marriage is a three ring circus: > >engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > >Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > >Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
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