Don't kill the Jdbgmgr.exe Bear!
This has popped up in my mailbox so many times that I've decided to add it as an Official Tip. Please don't delete the little bear. Here's the story:Sooner or later, you'll find an e-mail message in your mailbox warning of a dangerous new virus
that's
undetected by antivirus programs. This evil new virus, the message
claims, lives inside a file named Jdbgmgr.exe, its icon looks like a
little bear (seen to the left). Sure enough, Windows really does
contain a file with that name, bearing an icon of a little bear.The well-intentioned e-mail urges you to delete that file immediately, and then urge everybody in your mailbox to do the same thing. Please don't do either. This is a classic example of an Internet "hoax" or prank. Windows has included the jdbgmgr.exe file for many years now. It's supposed to be there.
If you delete the file, luckily, there's no harm done unless you're a developer of Windows "java" programmers. (They use that file for program testing.) The real harm here is that you've believed something suspicious in your e-mail, and then taken action without checking to see if it's true.
The next time you receive an e-mail telling you to do something, whether it's delete a suspicious file, help a persecuted Nigerian smuggle money, or send a flood of get-well cards to a hospitalized child, make sure you're not falling victim to a hoax. Check the Hoaxbusters site for up-to-date information on the latest hoaxes floating across the Internet.
And, if you want to retrieve the Bear file you've just deleted, you'll find instructions from McAfee.
(The SULFNBK.EXE e-mail is a hoax, too. Don't delete that file either. And if you did, McAfee has instructions for replacing it.)