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Posted by Trent SC on March 26, 2008, 9:36 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options >> When I get an e-mail with an attachment from a person who uses the AVG
>> Antivirus I get 2 files.One AVG_Certification.txt which informs me
>> that the e-mail is checked for viruses and the attachment as a noname
>> file without an extension.So I can't figure out what kind of file this
>> is and how to open it.Any help would be really appreciated.
>
> Save As with .txt extension, then open in a text editor such as Notepad (I
> think the reason MS continues to distribute Notepad is that this trick is
> a useful diagnostic tool.) Text editors AFAIK never execute anything. They
> just display the file contents as ASCII or ANSI characters, which can look
> like gibberish, of course.
>
> If the file is or contains text, you can read it. If it's not, then the
> header (first 256 characters, usually) in most cases contains a string
> that identifies the file type. Eg, WPC == WordPerfect, JFIF == jpeg, etc.
> HTML files are easily recognised. And so on. Rename the file with the
> appropriate file extension, and you can open it.
>
> HTH
>
> PS: a nit pick: standard English punctuation requires a space after a
> period denoting the end of a sentence.
Then perhaps you should have put the full stop outside the brackets (he who
is without sin...).
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