SillyDog701

[Fulvio]

I am wondering if .msf files belong to programs other than the Mozilla-based mails. I have been having problems, which I reported elsewhere, but the latest one wins the price. I have no way to tell the origin of what seem to be mail files, or the .msf files connected to them, but I found that nearly every file stored in My Documents had a corresponding .msf file. Essentially everything had a double extention. I deleted about 40 such files, all with 0Kb.
Will see tomorrow, if anything else got sick.

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[profman]

I am wondering if .msf files belong to programs other than the Mozilla-based mails. I have been having problems, which I reported elsewhere, but the latest one wins the price. I have no way to tell the origin of what seem to be mail files, or the .msf files connected to them, but I found that nearly every file stored in My Documents had a corresponding .msf file. Essentially everything had a double extention. I deleted about 40 such files, all with 0Kb.
Will see tomorrow, if anything else got sick.

I couldn't resist doing a Google search on this and located the below data from FILExt.

Extension: MSF
EarthLink E-mail Message File
Paired with .MIF file as its index.

Extension: MSF
Multiple Sequence File
(biomedical analysis)

Extension: MSF
Netscape Mail Mail Summary File
Each mail folder (Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files; one with no extension (e.g. INBOX), which is the mail file itself (in ‘mbox’ format), and one with an .MSF extension (e.g. INBOX.MSF), which is the index (Mail Summary File) to the mail file. If importing to another program, tell the other program to import mail from the file with no extension.


System Extension Info: Memory Stick Document File


MIME Type Info:

application/multiple_sequence
application/vnd.epson.msf
application/x-moderation-plugin

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[Fulvio]

Thanks,
I actually an answer to my original question. I did a computer search, and all the illegitimate files were in the My Documents folder.
This folder contains a variety of files, mainly .txt, a few .jpg, and .exe.
In each case I had a double extention. However there is the full complement files with no extention, which appear to be tied to a Mozilla-mail. I never save file out of context. But, having had all sort of Mozilla mail problem, I am not surprised. In the meantime, I see that someone is trying to mess me up. I received three e-mail, in succession, allegedly from my ISP, but with times which are very strange. With US mail, we should expect -0400 for EDT to -0700 for PDT, I believe. Not +0100!
And the messages had attachments like file.exe, file.scr, and attachment.zip.
But, I can't find anything at the McAfee site.

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