Virus being spread via email

From: Aaron (spectre630@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: "Aaron" <spectre630@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:34:53 -0700

While the "jdbgmgr.exe 'virus'" is a hoax, if something is
sending random emails to your friends, it most likely is
the cause of a virus. Klez is a very common virus right
now and it works by sending itself out through email to
the people in your address book.
A place you can check about hoaxes and such is Network
Associate's webpage, http://www.nai.com . If you don't
have some form of antivirus software, you should probably
acquire some. If you do, make sure it is updated and
running. Some of the virii now are programmed to close
popular antivirus software.
-Aaron

>-----Original Message-----
>We have a virus on our computer that seems to be sending
>messages to people that are loaded into our address
>book. We are hearing different stories in that we are
>getting emails back from people in our address book
>saying that we should remove a windows file but then we
>heard from one party that that was the HOAX of the
>virus. The goal of the virus was to get everybody to
>delete a Windows file when in all actuality the windows
>file had nothing to do with spreading the virus. The
>file was named such
>
>jdbgmgr.exe
>
>it had a teddy bear icon in the subject box. Does
>anybody have any experience with this virus. Please help
>us, we are web neophytes but we don't want our ignorance
>to be a source of spreading a virus. Thanks to all for
>their cooperation.
>.
>

Relevant Pages

  • jdbg.exe virus
    ... My wife received 2 emails from ... >virus and that we should check out our hard drive to see ... "There was a warning about this hoax a few months ... and the file is required for proper operation. ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: The Myth of the secure Mac
    ... The newest variants of the Bagle family of worms were detected this morning and are designed to avoid signature-based detection, leaving many antivirus companies scrambling to respond by producing signature updates. ... So far, ESET has identified more than 13,700 emails with Win32/Bagle.DC and 2,400 emails containing Win32/Bagle.DD and the number is quickly growing. ... "Because of the speed at which new variants are proliferated through botnets, even the most rapid response from a reactive signature update is insufficient," said Andrew Lee, CTO of ESET. ... ESET's Virus Radar, a real-time malware tracking tool, immediately identified these malicious Bagle variant using ThreatSense. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: The Myth of the secure Mac
    ... The newest variants of the Bagle family of worms were detected this morning and are designed to avoid signature-based detection, leaving many antivirus companies scrambling to respond by producing signature updates. ... So far, ESET has identified more than 13,700 emails with Win32/Bagle.DC and 2,400 emails containing Win32/Bagle.DD and the number is quickly growing. ... "Because of the speed at which new variants are proliferated through botnets, even the most rapid response from a reactive signature update is insufficient," said Andrew Lee, CTO of ESET. ... ESET's Virus Radar, a real-time malware tracking tool, immediately identified these malicious Bagle variant using ThreatSense. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: email virus warning and patch attachment
    ... >>getting a dangerous virus. ... >>attachment as I suspect this is a hoax. ... You have two options with these types of emails ... Here is a link on how to track down and report them to their ISP. ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: I keep getting mass email from MS security with a virus attached
    ... to lock down broadband PC's when someone is sending emails ... got to go filter those emails now. ... >by a virus that downloaded a proxy server that allows ... >> Microsoft but the attachment is a virus. ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)