Windows XP forum: Media file attachment to my emails

Or more correctly, an email worm. Try entering the filename into Google and see what comes up.

I did not write this but found on internet but explains everthing:

*.emz and *.wmz files are GZIP-compressed fully scallable *.emf and *.wmf images and corresponding bitmap images have size suitable for the screen settings used during the HTML-export and size resulting from the size of displayed image in Word. The quality of graphics is usually excellent.

*.emz and *.wmz file formats are recognized as graphics files by MS Office applications (e.g. Word, PowerPoint) and may be inserted (Insert/Picture or Image/From file ...) into such documents (and scaled at will).
However, there may be some problems with e.g. displaying fonts in PowerPoint. On my system - Win98/MS Office2k - all Arial fonts in such

*.emz, *.wmz, *.emf, *.wmf files are displayed as Times New Roman - font face is ignored; the same images copied from Word/Excel etc. as objects are displayed OK.
After you uncompress *.emz or *.wmz files into the corresponding uncompressed *.emf and *.wmf formats, such files will be treated as graphics by practically all vector-graphics recognizing applications.
How to uncompress *.emz or *.wmz files:
With GZIP.EXE (free command-line program, gzip.org GNU project):
GZIP.EXE -d <name>.emz ren <name>.em <name>.emf

The Windows files and folder search feature has never worked correctly, and it's probably a very low priority to fix with new system compromising Internet Explorer holes popping up every week, and trying to get Vista out the door, even if it's little more than a warmed over XP, with vastly inflated requirements, at this point.

See if it picks it up. I get attachments from my cuz & his mom (aunt) with attxxxxxx. I have AOL and everything downloads to My Documents. It could also be spyware or malware attaching itself to your emails and I have Ad-Aware SE Personal, Antispy on my yahoo toolbar in IE and one worthless one, AOL SpyZapper. The top red box in the middle has free antispyware at:
http://www.filehippo.com/

i deleted all the internet explorer temp files but this bug is still present as a hidden file. HOW DO I GET RID OF IT?

Did anyone ever give you a resolution for this problem???

http://filext.com/file-extension/wmz tells what wmz is.

As I read it, you attach an harmless gif-file (but you don't tell how) and EVERYBODY who replies replies with both the gif-file and this porno-like .wmz file. That's strange for several reasons, one of them being that attachments usually aren't attached to a reply.

Time for a little experiment. Sent such a mail to your private email address. Start with hotmail or gmail. See (at your home PC) what is attached. Then reply. Look at the file in your sent items box. See what comes in. Compare filenames and filesizes.
Repeat with a pop3-email-address that you open at home using Outlook Express or Thunderbird.


The obvious remedy seems to be to not attach the gif-file. Would anybody object to that line of action?

Kees

It's malware.

Get rid of it.

Okay. Not Malware. It is tied to the Word.

I change the edit option within the Outlook and removed MS Word as its editor. No more image00x.wmz as attachments.

I am now looking in Ms WOrd and its templates to find out where this file has hidden itself.

The wmz file was attached to some clip art that I got from the internet and was using in my email sig. A very innocent looking bouquet of flowers! Once I eventually found it (searched through my drives and folders) it was in the microsoft application data which is a hidden folder. Now that I have deleted it, the problem seems to have gone and I can use word as my email editor again!
If it wasn't for this discussion I wouldnt have worked it out.
Thanks

OK - same problem using Vista and Outlook 2003. I can not find the image001.wmz file - even in hidden folders. I looked thru every darn folder within the (hidden) microsoft application folder - and did find the file - also did not find a signature folder. I thought that the Outlook folder may possibly house a signature folder. Am I missing something?

Nailed it!

It was hiding under the Corporate Header that we used in MS Word 2000.

The source code of the header.html that attaches with the image001.wmz is shown below.

& this site most likely has something to do with it : [xmlns=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40]

Also found an equivalent discussion thread under http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-2325313.php rather helpful.




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<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">
<link id=Main-File rel=Main-File href="cid:.htm@01C9A8A8.45365310">
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<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="3074"/>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/>
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>

<body lang=EN-US>

<div style='mso-element:header' id=h1>

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10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:line id="_x0000_s1025"
style='position:absolute;z-index:1' from="41.85pt,43.4pt" to="446.85pt,43.4pt"
strokecolor="#36f" strokeweight="1.5pt"/><![endif]--></span></font><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-style:italic'><img
src="cid:image001.wmz@01C9A8A8.45365310"
v:src="cid:image001.wmz@01C9A8A8.45365310" v:shapes="_x0000_Mail" width=0
height=0 class=shape style='display:none;width:0;height:0'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t"
path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:190.9pt;
height:50.85pt' o:ole="" fillcolor="window">
<v:imagedata src="cid:image001.wmz@01C9A8A8.45365310" o:title=""/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:OLEObject Type="Embed" ProgID="Word.Picture.8" ShapeID="_x0000_i1025"
DrawAspect="Content" ObjectID="_1298982059">
</o:OLEObject>
</xml><![endif]--></span></i><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span></font><o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoHeader><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span><span style='mso-tab-count:
2'> </span></span></font><b><font
size=2 color="#3366ff"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
color:#3366FF;font-weight:bold'> Text Here </span></font></b></p>

</div>

</body>

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