Personaly I always check
http://www.antivirus.com
Good way to inform yourself about any existing virus
LD
Wyldesyde wrote:
>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/
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>-----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
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>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?
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>On Thu, 16 May 2002, Shadow Wolf wrote:
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>>There is a new virus going around called jdbgmgr.exe. It is not detected
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>by Norton or McAfee anti-virus systems.
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>>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
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>get rid of it.
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>>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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Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 16:59:51 CDT