Not sure if anyone else has seen this one this year, but it's making it's rounds here again.

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PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING ASAP: 1 Go to the Start, then click your "find" or "search" option. 2. In the folder option, type the name jdbgm 3. Be sure to search your C drive (this is where I found it) and all     the sub folders and other drives you may have 4. Click "find now" 5. the virus has a 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 your menu bar) and select delete.  The virus will then go to the recycle bin. *** If you find the virus, you must contact all the people in your address book so that they may eradicate the virus from their own address books To do this: 1. Open a new e-mail message 2. Click the icon address book (contacts) next to "To" 3. Highlight every name and add to "BCC" 4. Copy the message and paste to e-mail

It normally comes with an Email title like IMPORTANT MESSAGE re:virus, and for those who haven't seen this one yet, it's a hoax.

Ah, the infamous teddy bear. Yeah, I've actually had two emails in the past 10 days or so from people apologizing because, since I was in their e-dress books, they thought they may have infected me with it. Can't figure out why it's back, because the hoax was so thoroughly exposed last year. The site truthorfiction.com is a good place to check on virus (and) other hoaxes.

If one updates and scans with an SAF recommended Virus control program weekly, is it necessary to run the scans on this link?

Thank You,
Chris

No sweat, Chris. If you keep current, as you say, then your anti-virus program should catch any legitimate bugs. It won't catch "jdbgm," which is what Alfons was talking about, because that's part of a perfectly good file: jdbgmgr.exe, Microsoft's debugger for Java.

See, that's how the hoax works. It tries to make you think you've got a virus -- so it can trick you into deleting a perfectly legit file.