Please check for a virus that I may have passed on to you

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From: Annie Kalish (akalish@nuc.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 13:33:56 PST

email:
  A virus has been passed on to us by a contact.
Our address book in turn may have been infected.
Since you are in my address book there is a chance that you will find it in
your computer too.
I followed the instructions below and eradicated the virus easily.
-Annie

> > The virus (called jdbgmgr.exe) is not detected by
> Norton or McAfee
> > anti-virus system. This virus sits quietly for 14
> days before damaging the
> > system. It is sent automatically by messenger and
> the address book,
> whether
> > or not you send e-mails to your contacts.
> >
> > Heres how to check for the virus and get rid of it
> :
> >
> > 1. Go to start, Find or Search option
> >
> > 2. In the file/folders option, type the name
> jdbgmgr.exe
> >
> > 3. Be sure you search your C-drive and all the
> sub-folders and any other
> > drives you may have
> >
> > 4. Click : \"Find now\"
> >
> > 5. The virus has a grey teddy bear icon with the
> name jdbgmgr.exe
> >
> > - DO NOT OPEN IT !
> >
> > 6. Go to edit (on the menu bar) and choose SELECT
> ALL to highlight the
> > file without opening it.
> >
> > 7. Now go to the File (on the menu bar) and select
> DELETE. It will then go
> > to the recycle bin.
> >
> > 8. Go to the Recycle Bin and delete it there as
> well.
> >
> > IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS, you must contact all the
> people in your address
> > book, so they can eradicate it in their own
> address books.
> >
> > To do this :
> >
> > 1. Open a new e-mail message
> >
> > 2. Click the icon of the address book next to the
> \"To\"
> >
> > 3. Highlight every name and add to \"BCC\"
> >
> > 4. Copy this message, enter subject and paste to
> e-mail, and send
> >
> > PL ACTION THIS IMMEDIATELY.

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Annie Kalish
Chairman's Assistant / Web Designer
Computer Resource Specialist
Nuclear Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
4155 Etcheverry, MC 1730
Berkeley, CA 94720-1730
Phone: 510 / 642.4077 - Fax: 510 / 643.9685

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