spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: The first non-Nomic-related e-mail over this forum... Whee.

["David E. Smith" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 26 May 2002, Alex Truelsen wrote:

> 5.  The virus has a teddy bear icon with the name jdbgmgr.exe

DO NOT DO THIS.

jdbgmgr.exe is part of the Java runtime environment for MS Internet
Explorer, and the "teddy bear" virus hoax has been circulating for a while
now.

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

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322993

...dave "who doesn't even run Windows and is thus effectively immune"