[PD] Suspicious files

[João Miguel Pais]

Dear List,

During the last days automatic-opening-messages composed of an html file and
a .bat file (which is tried to open automatically whenever the message is
selected) have arrived at me though this list (and of course to the others),
and also directly to my address.
I wanted to ask if these messages are safe, as I suspect them being loaded
with viruses ready to eat my system (although norton didn't detected
nothing), since they come from addresses not common to the list, and this
kind of "abusive" format (which tries to open the files automatically) was
also not normal so far.
The last one was today, the data is after this:

João Miguel Pais

----- Original Message -----
From: "msp" <msp at ucsd.edu>
To: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 7:07 AM
Subject: Re:please try again