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Has anyone else gotten this already? My father got an email about it and found it on his computer too. Supposedly, it infects your address book and sends inself to anyone in the book. I don't think it can be found by virus programs, but I never tried. I got rid of it by going to Find, typing in the name, deleting it and then emptying the recycling bin. Just wondering if anyone had any information about it. Thanks.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... .hoax.html

<i>This is a hoax that, like the SULFNBK.EXE Warning hoax, tries to persuade you to delete a legitimate Windows file from your computer. The file that the hoax refers to, Jdbgmgr.exe, is the Microsoft Debugger Registrar for Java. It may be installed when you install Windows.

NOTE: Recent version of this hoax take advantage of the recent outbreak of the W32.bugbear@mm worm, and the fact that the Jdbgmgr.exe file that is mentioned in the hoax has a bear icon. The actual W32.bugbear@mm worm file is an .exe file and does not have a bear icon.

The Windows Jdbgmgr.exe file has a teddy bear icon as described in the hoax:



CAUTION: Jdbgmgr.exe, like any file, can become infected by a virus. One virus in particular, W32.Efortune.31384@mm, targets this file. Norton AntiVirus has provided protection against W32.Efortune.31384@mm since May 11, 2001.

NOTE: If you have already deleted the Jdbgmgr.exe file, in most cases, you do not have to reinstall it. The following is quoted from the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Virus Hoax: Microsoft Debugger Registrar for Java (Jdbgmgr.exe) Is Not a Virus (Q322993)</i>


More at the link. And here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;Q322993

More here:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/jdbgmgr.htm

<b>Delete jdbgmgr.exe From Your Windows Command Folder Because It's a Virus-Fiction!


Summary of eRumor
An email warns you that a new virus is spreading and will activate on a certain date. Many versions also describe how the sender of the email searched his or her computer and found the file so is warning you in case the contamination was passed along. The offending file is named jdbgmgr.exe and you get instructions on how to find and delete the file both from your hard disk and from the recycle bin in Windows. Some versions also identify it as the "Teddy Bear" virus because of the design of the icon for the file.


The Truth:
This is a false warning. If you follow the instructions in the eRumor, you will be deleting a valid file, not a virus.

jdbgmgr.exe is a Windows file associated with Java.

Jesus, look what happens whenever I listen to my parents...

One of the basic rules of thumb and middle finger is that if you are warned about a virus in email, it doesn't exist. This applies to many other chain mails as well. For example, a friend forwarded an email last week to me (and about 50 other people) to be on the look-out for a little girl who has been missing (possibly kidnapped), and it included her pic.

Simply typing her name in Google produced over a dozen different "urban legend" websites debunking the hoax. Finding virus hoaxes with Google is just as easy.

I'm not saying all email about virii are hoaxes, I myself have sent numerous emails to friends and family about very real and potentially destructive virii, but I always included a link to the respectable news site or anti-virus site that details the particular virus. No one has received a hoax chain mail from me since 1994 (that's when I learned MY lesson )

Other giveaway clues that the virus warning is a hoax is misspelled words, typing in ALL CAPS, saying the hard drive will be destroyed, the words "delete it immediately!" and "forward this to all your friends!" and several other non-subtle hints.

Always enter one of the keywords in the "warning email" at Google before freaking out...and possibly "destoying" your hard drive all by yourself...

Here we go...I just went to my Hotmail inbox, and low-and-behold, a warning email about a very REAL virus...

Just got this in from a reliable source It seems that there is a virus out there called the Senile Virus that even the most advanced programs from Norton cannot take care of, so be warned, it appears to affect those of us who were born before 1958!

Symptoms of Senile Virus
1. Causes you to send same e-mail twice.
2. Causes you to send blank e-mail.
3. Causes you to send to wrong person.
4. Causes you to send back to person who sent it to you.
5. Causes you to forget to attach the attachment.
6. Causes you to hit "SEND" before you've finished the

LOL senile virus.