For future reference : When you get a notice mass-mailed out by *anyone*, including people you know or don't know, it's a hoax. It's ALWAYS a hoax. The starving children who need you to forward the E-mail ? Hoax. The 'we're checking to see if accounts are active' thing ? Hoax. Those messages promising free prizes if you reply to them ? Those are spam. Except some. Which are hoaxes. Hope this clears everything up :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended: you | |have but slumbered here while these visions did appear. And this | |weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream. Gentles, do not | |reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> >To: Draegara List <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Fw: READ! (fwd) >Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:28:24 -0800 (PST) > > >[stupid lame-ass hoax deleted] > >I do hope no-one on this list is actually going to follow the >instructions. > >Hoax info: > http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/jdbgmgr.htm > > Origins: Like the SULFNBK.EXE hoax, this bogus virus warning > (also known as the "Bear Virus") attempts to lure gullible users > into deleting perfectly innocuous, standard Windows files from > their systems. > > In this case the target file is JDBGMGR.EXE, a Java Debug > Manager program used by the Microsoft Java runtime engine. This > file is included as part of a standard Windows installation and is > not a "virus." (The icon for this file is a graphic of a bear like > the one shown to the left.) > > If you deleted this file, don't sweat it -- JDBGMGR.EXE is only > important to programmers who use Microsoft Visual J++ 1.1 to > develop Java programs. Its absence will not cause your PC to stop > working or interfere with your applications, so if you're not a > Java developer, you don't have to worry about restoring it. > Consider the experience a lesson learned about the perils of > believing and acting upon unverified e-mail warnings. > > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail