At 09:45 AM 3/9/03 -0500, Group44TR7@aol.com wrote:
> I received an email this morning from a Triumph friend title
>"important message", directed me to delete file jdbgmgr.exe from my Windows
>system as being contaminated, and further directed me to notify everyone in
>my address book.
>
> It was a very well written message with the name of my friend on the
>bottom. It looked very credible. But when I check our family computers, all
>three had this file, one dating back to having been last modified in 1998. It
>does not seem to add up.
Sounds like your friend's computer, or the computer that has your friend's
name in his address book, is infected.
Often, you can go to the site of an anti-virus software provider such as
Norton (NFI) to view their list of current virus threats. I don't know the
name, but there is at least 1 such malignancy that directs recipients to
delete files as corrupted.
Take a look at :
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/
Irv Korey
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