Klarinet Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2002/10

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] bogus virus warning?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:05:09 -0400

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Peter Stoll wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I seem to recall that from time to time there has been
> a scam where you get a warning that someone's address
> book has caused you to be sent a virus in a particular
> file that you have to delete. I was just warned about
> the Windows file jdbgmgr.exe. Does anyone know if
> this is a hoax?

I think the URL explains it well enough...

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

-jeremy

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