Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:16:01 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Carol /Oscar Ghebelian Subject: Re: Please DO Action this--Important! Comments: To: "Jacobs, Don" Comments: cc: IDRS , IDRS , "Imlay, Marc/Alice" , "Ishikawa, Y," , "Jackson, Barbara" , Jane Kostenko , "Jett, George" , "Jett, George" , John Byron , "Julian, Lesley" , "Kopp, James" , "Korzin, Dottie" , "Kriebel, Lous" , "Kriemelmeyer, Millie" , "Laffoon, Larry" , "Lancaster, Carl" , "Laufer, Pearl" , "leighty, jack" , "Lessig, BArbara" , "Leventhal, Michael" , "Lister, Lisa" , "Listerl, Doug" , "Long, Jim" , marci leach , Marian Jacques , "Marlin, Lynn" , Martha/Maya , Marty , MaryLynn Desimone , "McBain, Wayne" , MDOsprey , md-SMAS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks, Don. I am hearing for others, too. Feel so stupid to be caught in this and causing all this to-do. Much more fun duck-watching! (If anyone did already delete, let me know and I can tell how to reinstate) Carol Ghebelian "Jacobs, Don" wrote: > > This program is not a virus, it is part of the Windows Program a debug > program. It should not be deleted. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carol /Oscar Ghebelian [mailto:gheb@bellatlantic.net] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:34 PM > To: IDRS; IDRS; Imlay, Marc/Alice; Ishikawa, Y,; Jackson, Barbara; > Jacobs, Don; Jane Kostenko; Jett, George; Jett, George; John Byron; > Julian, Lesley; Kopp, James; Korzin, Dottie; Kostenko, Jane; Kriebel, > Lous; Kriemelmeyer, Millie; Laffoon, Larry; Lancaster, Carl; Laufer, > Pearl; leighty, jack; Lessig, BArbara; Leventhal, Michael; Lister, Lisa; > Listerl, Doug; Long, Jim; marci leach; Marian Jacques; Marlin, Lynn; > Martha/Maya; Marty; Maryland Birds & Birding; MaryLynn Desimone; McBain, > Wayne; MDOsprey; md-SMAS > Subject: Please DO Action this--Important! > > Someone has infected my system which is passed on through an address > book, and am afraid has been passed on to you. Easy to delete, just > follow instructions below. SO SORRY--mea culpa. > > Carol Ghebelian > Indian Head, MD > gheb@bellatlantic.net > > I found this in my system.Please check yours. > > Our computer has been infected with a virus from one of our > contacts. As > a > result, so has yours because your address is in our book. The virus > is > called > jdbgmgr.exe. It cannot be detected by Norton or McAfee anti-virus > programs. > > It sits quietly for 14 days before damaging the system. It is sent > > automatically by messenger and by the address book, whether or not > you > send > > e-mails. In essence, because you are in our address book, you are > most > > likely to be infected. Sorry. I followed the instructions below and > it > was > > easy to get rid of. I did a file search and it showed up in the > > Windows/system32 file. > > To get rid of the virus: > > 1. Go to start, then find Search > > 2. in Files/Folders, write the name jdbgmgr.exe > > 3. Be sure to search in your C drive > > 4. Click Find or Search > > 5. The virus has a teddy bear logo with the name jdbgmgr.exe DO > NOT > OPEN > > IT!! > > 6. Right click and delete it > > 7. Go to the recycle bin and delete it there too > > NOTE: IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS, YOU MUST CONTACT EVERYONE IN YOUR > ADDRESS > BOOK. > > Sorry to be the "bearer" of bad news, but it was very easy to get rid > of. > > If you don't see the teddy bear, then you don't have the virus. -- Carol Ghebelian Indian Head, MD gheb@bellatlantic.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================