whoa, take it easy. not everyone receives the hoax warnings. most of us have
a tendency to treat these types of things as being true, simply because,
with the fact that there have been some serious virus' spread in this manner
in the past, its become a reflex action to treat warnings as true. besides,
this is quite a well-designed hoax, made to fool anyone who doesn't take a
minute to check a few things, such as the MSDN library ( at
http://msdn.microsoft.com )for what a file does, especially when its in the
windows directory. when something like this pokes up, just mention its a
hoax, and don't go ballistic right away.
Wyldesyde (hoping to inject some common sense and calmness, preferably with
high-velocity projectiles)
"writer, gamer, part time psycho"
homepage:
http://www3.telus.net/wyldesyde/
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Greene [mailto:blaze_at_netaxs.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:15 PM
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Cc: Xavier Valentine Mewtwo; togashi_tsuke_at_lycos.com; The one they call
"ChocoboKick"; Shadow; Raptor Red; phoebeholmes_at_home.com; Nexxus;
Kitchkinet; foxSWAPEM2REPLYlear_at_twu.net; Fiver106; evan51_at_earthlink.net;
DreamCrawler; Daviduck; Cubone118; Blue Streak; BanWynn
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] New virus warning
Why are you sending this crap to the list, just a few days after it was
pointed out to be a hoax? Please, don't send any more of this sort of
hoax. Don't you even read this group?
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Shadow Wolf wrote:
> There is a new virus going around called jdbgmgr.exe. It is not detected
by Norton or McAfee anti-virus systems.
> The virus sits quietly for 14 days before damaging the system. It is sent
> automatically by the messenger and by the Address book, whether or not you
> sent emails to your contacts. Here's how to check for the virus and how to
get rid of it.
>
> Do this:
> 1. Go to start, Find or search option
> 2. In the files/folder option, write jdbgmgr.exe
> 3. Be sure you search the C drive
> 4. Click "find now"
> 5. The virus has a teddy bear icon with the name jdbgmgr.exe
> DO NOT OPEN IT
> 6. Right click and delete it. It will go to the Recycle bin.
> 7. Go to the recycle bin and delete it there as well
>
> Just to warn you
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