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Date Posted: 06:37:37 05/21/02 Tue
Author: MsB
Subject: Re: Jdbgmgr.exe file hoax
In reply to: WE67 's message, "Jdbgmgr.exe file hoax" on 22:30:50 05/20/02 Mon

Raising my hand...LOL...To make matters worst we got it from my inlaws who insisted they checked into it and it was real. Well I did what any good daughter inlaw would do and deleted the file. Hmmm...An hour and a half later we got a follow up e-mail letting us know it was a hoax. TO LATE!!! Well the moral of this story...This is the last time I will try to be a good daughter inlaw!!!

We just had our computer guy here last night and this is what he e-mailed us before he came. Good luck!

> From the Security Information Center (F-Secure): In April 2002 there
>
>
>appeed a hoax message coerning a new virus that was
>reportedly
>discovered in Windows utility JDBGMGR.EXE. The jdbgmgr is a
>standard
>windows component that is found in every windows installation,
>it is used
>as Java debugger manager in Microsoft Java runtime engine. We
>checked
>several versions of this utility from Windows installations and
>found
>nothing malicious in them. Please ignore this hoax or anything
>similar
>warning about jdbgmgr.exe and don't pass it on. Instructions for
>how to
>restore your system, if you have deleted jdbgmgr.exe: 1.Download
>updated
>Microsoft Virtual Machine from
>http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm
> 2. Follow the instructions
>on the Microsoft page for downloading and
>updating the Virtual Machine
>If you have deleted JDBGMGR.EXE from your
>system, it can be restored by
>installing updated version of Microsft
>Virtual Machine or Internet
>Explorer. Please note that some e-mail worms
>(for example, Magistr)
>might sometimes send an infected JDBGMGR.EXE in an
>e-mail attachment, but
>this infection is caused by Magistr not JDBGMGR by
>itself. So the bottom
>line is, if you receive JDBGMGR.EXE or any other
>windows component by
>email, it is most probably a file infected by a
>virus. If you find
>JDBGMGR.EXE from your system directory, it is most
>probably a clean file.

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Re: Jdbgmgr.exe file hoax -- Tweety, 17:00:57 05/21/02 Tue
MsB, you are such a sweet dutiful DIL -- Cari, 09:38:06 05/22/02 Wed