How a new hoax virus alert could cripple Windows Java
http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=275&page=3


There is a hoax virus alert circulating around the Internet that might trick Windows users into deleting an important file on their machines.

The fake warning says to search your hard drives for jdbgmgr.exe and to delete it. jdbgmgr.exe, a filename used by Microsoft's Debugger Registrar for Java and is present quite legitimately on many computers.

On the other hand, a virus named Magistr-A is capable of sending infected copies of jdbgmgr.exe to folks and this is why the hoax is gaining ground.

If you delete your legitimate copy of jdbgmgr.exe. then Microsoft's Debugger Registrar for Java won't run properly and Java programs you come across will fail to run

For more details on the jdbgmgr.exe hoax alert visit Virus Myths:
http://www.vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=275&page=3

As a rule of thumb, if you find jdbgmgr.exe on your computer, then your computer is probably not infected; but if you received and executed jdbgmgr.exe as an email attachment, then your computer probably is infected.

As always, if you receive an unsolicited executable file in your email, delete the email !
 
The latest panic is similar in many ways to the sulfnbk.exe hoax alert last year, (Remember - I sent you a warning about that one too). My guess is, the latest
panic is caused by a clueless, well-meaning user who want to tell his friends about the latest unsubstantiated threat to enter their in-mailbox.

My rule is - don't pass on virus warnings to friends until you can prove that it is valid.