Teddy Bear Virus

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STEVE BURTON

Recieved e-mail from a friend warning of a virus
contained in a file that probably got sent to me from
that friend. E-mail instructed to search for this file
and delete if found without opening. I did so, found it
and deleted it. Turns out this file is part of Microsoft
software and the e-mail was a hoax. My friend had simply
forwarded it to all in address book. File is "teddy bear"
jdbe.exe Apparently a debugging program. This seems to be
having an adverse effect as on start-up I receive a
message: "Read disc error, please reboot"
 
Greetings --

This is a very old hoax. If your antivirus software is current and
detects nothing, you're safe. Do nothing with the named file, delete
the email, and tell whomever sent you the original message to check
their facts before spreading rumors.

Microsoft Debugger Registrar for Java Is Not a Virus
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322993

Jdbgmgr.exe file Hoax
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html

It's important to remember that almost _any_ email virus warning
is a hoax, designed primarily to bog down email systems by having
well-meaning but uniformed people send out hundreds of otherwise
valueless email warnings. When you receive a warning like this, the
*first* thing you should do is check its veracity at one or more of
the following web sites:

Symantec Security Response - Hoax Page
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

F-Secure Security Information Center - Hoaxes
http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/

Trend Micro Hoax Encyclopedia, alerts
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoax.asp

If you did delete the file, you really haven't done much damage.
This file is used by Java programmers to find errors in their code.
If you don't do any Java programming, you don't really need the file.


Bruce Chambers

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STEVE said:
Recieved e-mail from a friend warning of a virus
contained in a file that probably got sent to me from
that friend. E-mail instructed to search for this file
and delete if found without opening. I did so, found it
and deleted it. Turns out this file is part of Microsoft
software and the e-mail was a hoax. My friend had simply
forwarded it to all in address book. File is "teddy bear"
jdbe.exe Apparently a debugging program. This seems to be
having an adverse effect as on start-up I receive a
message: "Read disc error, please reboot"
Click to expand...

Which has nothing to do with the fact you deleted that file - jdbmgr.exe is
used by Java programmers to test and debug their code - if you're having
problems they're unrelated; the fact you started receiving that error after
deleting that file is nothing more than coincidence.
 
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