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From: Chris Dowling <cdowling>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:12:31 -0500
CCBC-Net Community,
Earlier this afternoon a few messages referred to a possible virus outbreak. The 'virus' named in the messages is the 'Jdbgmgr.exe file hoax' described on the Symantec web site. As a couple of members wrote, the description is posted on the Symantec website...
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html
Besides this being a hoax, the mail server that supports the CCBC-Net blocks many types of file attachments from being sent. Files with an EXE extension like this file would not get to the CCBC-Net community via our mail server.
In general it is a good practice to take care with any file that enters your computer from a public network like the Internet. Messages that carry file attachments are a good example. Do not open or save a file attachment unless you expected to be sent the attachment AND you trust the sender. (Even then, the more paranoid among us might weigh their curiosity about the contents of the file against the possibility of losing their data.)
Measure twice; cut once. Chris
~~~~~ Chris Dowling Center for Instructional Materials & Computing University of Wisconsin-Madison
(608) 263C39
Received on Mon 03 May 2004 06:12:31 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:12:31 -0500
CCBC-Net Community,
Earlier this afternoon a few messages referred to a possible virus outbreak. The 'virus' named in the messages is the 'Jdbgmgr.exe file hoax' described on the Symantec web site. As a couple of members wrote, the description is posted on the Symantec website...
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html
Besides this being a hoax, the mail server that supports the CCBC-Net blocks many types of file attachments from being sent. Files with an EXE extension like this file would not get to the CCBC-Net community via our mail server.
In general it is a good practice to take care with any file that enters your computer from a public network like the Internet. Messages that carry file attachments are a good example. Do not open or save a file attachment unless you expected to be sent the attachment AND you trust the sender. (Even then, the more paranoid among us might weigh their curiosity about the contents of the file against the possibility of losing their data.)
Measure twice; cut once. Chris
~~~~~ Chris Dowling Center for Instructional Materials & Computing University of Wisconsin-Madison
(608) 263C39
Received on Mon 03 May 2004 06:12:31 PM CDT
