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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on October 25, 2002, 10:06:59 pm

Title: Virus?
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 25, 2002, 10:06:59 pm

OK, I got an e-mail telling me to find jdbgmgr.exe and delete it from my system. I'm assuming this is a fake, but I'd thought I'd double check, and none of my techy friends are awake right now :)

Title: Re: Virus?
Post by: mikhael on October 25, 2002, 10:09:12 pm

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
OK, I got an e-mail telling me to find jdbgmgr.exe and delete it from my system. I'm assuming this is a fake, but I'd thought I'd double check, and none of my techy friends are awake right now :)

Fake. look it up under Hoaxes on the Symantec website. JDBmgr.exe is a standard file distributed with Windows. Deleting it won't cripple anything, but why do anything that a hoax mail tells you?

Title: Virus?
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 25, 2002, 10:26:45 pm

Cheers

Title: Virus?
Post by: Vertigo1 on October 26, 2002, 11:17:50 pm

Rule of thumb: If you get an e-mail from ANYONE telling you to delete a file...don't.  Delete it immediately.

Title: Virus?
Post by: mikhael on October 26, 2002, 11:25:26 pm

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Originally posted by Vertigo1
Rule of thumb: If you get an e-mail from ANYONE telling you to delete a file...don't.  Delete [the email] immediately.

Sorry. Thought you needed a little clarification there. ;)

Title: Virus?
Post by: CODEDOG ND on October 27, 2002, 12:11:22 am

yea, that's a fake.  had a couple of people drag me to their houses to remove it.

Title: Virus?
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 27, 2002, 01:47:49 am

Hope you tapped a few keys and charged them a fiver for your time :)

Title: Virus?
Post by: CODEDOG ND on October 27, 2002, 09:39:40 am

Of course...:D