Re: virus or debugger

From: YoKenny (YKnot_at_home.invalid)
Date: 10/01/03 

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:35:28 -0400

daniel wrote:
> I just received an e-mail from a friend who said her
> computer has a virus called jdbg.exe which is passed
> through email address books and "is sent automatically by
> messenger and by address book, whether or not you sent
> email to your contacts, The virus has a teddy bear icon
> with the name jdbgmgr.exe." I checked out my files and
> sure enough there is a file of this name with the teddy
> bear icon...but in checking the properties of this file
> it says that this is a "Microsoft Debugger Registrar for
> Java file version 5.00.3810". So, is this a virus or a
> microsoft debugger (and what is a debugger?)My friend
> says to delete this file and not open it..Any suggestions
> or comments would be very helpful

Daniel, your friend is not very computer literate as this is an old hoax.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html

Did your anti virus application tell you this was a virus?

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