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[Bob Webster]

'Folks, It was a HOAX.



For those that deleted it, my apologies. For those that didn?t ?DON?T. I guess I am too trusting. I got severely beaten about the head and shoulders in many messages from those with much more computer savvy than I have (which isn?t much) a few of which are below. I have no idea what a Java applet is, but dumping this file apparently affects it. The last one says to contact Microsoft for fixing the deletion.



Even as a kid I never understood destroying for the sake of destruction so this virus/worm stuff is alien to my thinking.



Any future warnings sure won?t be from me!



A question for the gurus out there. I have received a couple messages as follows. Is this "!000" thing a real protection or another hoax?



Again, sorry for those that believed it like I did.



Bob

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As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads
straight for your email address book and sends itself to everyone in there,
thus infecting all your friends and associates.

This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but It will
stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert
you to the fact that the worm has gotten into your system.

Here's what you do: First, open your address book and click on "new contact"
or "new person" just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your
list of email addresses. In the window where you would type your friend's
FIRST name, type in !000 (that's an exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros).
In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address,
type in WormAlert. Then complete everything by clicking add, enter, OK,
etc.

Now, here's what you've done and why it works: the "name" !000 will be
placed at the top of your address book as entry #1. This will be where the
worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends.

But when it tries to send itself to !000 , it will be undeliverable because
of the phony email address you entered (WormAlert). If the first attempt
fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further
and your friends will not be infected.

Here's the second great advantage of this method: if an email cannot be
delivered, you will be notified of this in your InBox almost immediately.

Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to
WormAlert could not be delivered, you know right away that you have the worm
virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid of it!

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THE VIRUS WARNING FOR jdbgmgr.exe IS A HOAX ACCORDING TO McAFEE HOT LINE. IT WAS STARTED ON 4/8/2002 AND IS BEING SPREAD BY UNKNOWING PERSONS. I SHOULD HAVE CHECKED THE HOT LINE BEFORE SENDING THE E!!!! SORRY



Sorry for this message, but I though it was that important to get this out to the whole gang.



This HOAX has been out for only 4-5 weeks, but we?ve seen MANY cases where the files have been deleted only to have the users find that they cannot browse the internet very well afterward. DO NOT DELETE ANY FILES IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE.



Please, should you get a warning like this in the future; refer to the following links to see if in fact it is a REAL problem or only a ?problem? if you do what they ask.



http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/default.asp



http://securityresponse.symantec.com/



NEVER, NEVER BLINDLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF AN UNSOLICITED EMAIL
UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY INTO SELF INFLICTED PAIN.

This particular hoax could be worse. Per Symantec,
"If you have already deleted the Jdbgmgr.exe file, some Java applets may
not run correctly. This is not a critical system file. The file version
may vary with your operating system and version of Internet Explorer. If
you want to restore the file, please contact Microsoft for instructions."

You can research any virus by going to the Symantec website virus
encyclopedia and typing in the name of the (alleged) virus. The URL is:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html/



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