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Dear Valerie, Maria, and List,<br>
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Please read this short paragraph clipped from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.snopes.com">http://www.snopes.com</a> with
reference to the many times forwarded last message received on the SW LIST:<br>
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The "Teddy Bear", or "jdbgmgr.exe VIRUS" hoax:<br>
<p> <font color="#000000" face="Bookman Old Style,Arial" size="3"><font
color="#008888" face="Arial"><b>Origins:</b></font> Like the <a
href="http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/sulfnbk.htm">SULFNBK.EXE</a> hoax,
this bogus virus warning (also known as the "Bear Virus") attempts to lure
gullible users into deleting perfectly innocuous, standard Windows files
from their systems. </font></p>
<p> <font color="#000000" face="Bookman Old Style,Arial" size="3">In <img
src="http://www.snopes.com/computer/graphics/bear.jpg" width="32"
height="32" border="0" align="left" hspace="16" vspace="16">
this case the target file is JDBGMGR.EXE, a Java Debug Manager program
used by the Microsoft Java runtime engine. This file is included as part of
a standard Windows installation and is not a "virus." (The icon for this
file is a graphic of a bear like the one shown to the left.) </font></p>
<p> <font color="#000000" face="Bookman Old Style,Arial" size="3">If you
deleted this file, don't sweat it <nobr>--</nobr> JDBGMGR.EXE is only important
to programmers who use Microsoft <nobr>Visual J++ 1.1</nobr> to develop Java
programs. Its absence will not cause your PC to stop working or interfere
with your applications, so if you're not a Java developer, you don't have
to worry about restoring it. Consider the experience a lesson learned about
the perils of believing and acting upon unverified <nobr>e-mail warnings.</nobr>
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<p> <font color="#000000" face="Bookman Old Style,Arial" size="3">Windows
2000 and Windows ME include a Windows File Protection (WFP) feature that
will recover shared files such as JDBGMGR.EXE if they are overwritten or
deleted. Users of other Windows operating systems can only retrieve JDBGMGR.EXE
by reinstalling the Microsoft <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm" target="vm">Virtual
Machine</a> (VM) component, but Microsoft is no longer offering it as a download.
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