Sunday, March 07, 2004

VIRUS HOAX:
There is an old virus hoax that has resurfaced and is making the rounds again.
If you get an email telling you that you have been given a virus by way of the senders address book, or contained in an attachment, and tells you to find and delete the file fdbgmgr.exe, with the teddy bear icon, ignore it.
You will have that file because it's a windows system file. There is a virus related to that file but it won't have the teddy bear icon. Norton has had a definition for it since 01.
Ant time you receive an email like that, check the Symantec data base before you do any thing. There have been a couple of hoax's that have you delete windows system files so you can screw up your own machine.
Fdbgmgr.exe is a javascript debugger and you probably wouldn't miss it unless your doing some javascript programming. Files should never be deleted unless you are sure of what they are, and you should always make a back up before you delete just in case.