Thanks for the info - I hadn't heard of that type of virus. I looked up PIF file, after a friend said it referred to some old Windows 3.1 program files, and according to Webopedia.com, it is: Last modified: January 18, 1997 "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 . "ck AVI is short for Audio Video Interleave, the file format for Microsoft's Video for Windows standard. FYI - Gloria >anything with me_nude is part of a particularly nasty virus (My office got >it). The name of the file attachment varies depending on the day of the >month it is sent. You can read more about it by going to www.f-secure.com >which has a complete virus description. >One of the characteristics of this virus is that it looks around on your >system to see if you have a virus program installed. If it finds one then it >goes dormant and "hides". If it doesn't find a virus program it disables >your ability to go to Norton, McAfee, Trend and F-Secure antivirus sites. >Then it emails everyone in your address book. > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp -- Woodruff County, AR http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwoodru Computer Literacy http://www.ualr.edu/~gblane Gloria's Page http://www.aristotle.net/~gblane