>>I have received a ton of PIF and EXE attachments today - one from the CDC. Hows your mailbox!
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>That seems to be another spread on the Internet. I also started to get a lot of them today. They usually are about a one line body including "See the attached file for details" with a subject along the line "Your details" or "Re: Your details". Whenever I have those, I also get two other emails that Mail Daemon notices me that the attachment has been removed.

Thats the guy! I looked at my ISP's web-mail offering - could not find a block or filter feature for attachment "types".