Is it a Virus or a hoax?

Don’t be embarrassed, but someone at your company probably has fallen for a virus hoax somewhere along the line. A recent example of this was the “Jdbgmgr.exe” hoax that tries to persuade you to delete a real windows file from your PC. The message warns of a virus that can’t be spotted by your virus protection that should be deleted right away. Now of course the reason your antivirus can’t detect it is because it is a legitimate Java Debugger Manager. This file seems suspicious because its icon is a teddy bear and this is described in the warning. As a general rule if a message asks you to delete anything, be very wary. The next step is to go out to the internet and see if this is a real virus warning or a hoax. A great site for checking this is http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html.

Better to be safe than sorry. By the way if you did delete this file, don’t panic. This is not a critical system file, but some java applets may not run correctly. Here is a link to the fix http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm .

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