WIN.dat files arriving in email instead of acrobat

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From: Tania_Short
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:05

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Hi, A friend of mine has been sending me acrobat attachments (I have seen them physically sent) but they arrive in my mail box as Win.dat files and totally unreadable. A double click on the icon, suggests I open them using VLC player. I have tried opening a win.dat file using acrobat, by first changing them into .pdf files and I get a message telling me that the file has been corrupted.

Any ideas? is this a preferences issue? I have tried calling the microsoft helpline but they pass it on as an acrobat problem...

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