winmail.dat files

[ellienihon]

Does anyone know what this is? A friend sent me an attachment, two of them, and she said that they are pics. I am sure she wrote the email, so I doubt that it's anything bad. She said they're pictures. I am not familiar with pics in this format. What do I do with them?

Comments

[enigmaticelf.livejournal.com]

This page gives a pretty good explanation of what it is and how to deal.

My recommendation? Tell your friend not to use Outlook. :)

[ellienihon.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[thespeaker.livejournal.com]

With any attachment, mail your friend first and confirm they did actually send the mail. When an outlook virus goes around, it's stupidly easy to get someone's contacts list/inbox names and then mail everyone on that list with the virus. Thus, always confirm the friend did mean to send it before opening it.

[ellienihon.livejournal.com]

There was other stuff beside the .dat file (she was trying to send pictures). I'm gong to ask her to resend it though. I usually erase attachments immediately if there is no content in the body of the message.