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This is also a good argument for diversity in networks! Smart farmers know to plant more than one strain of corn... in case a virus that incapacitates one strain, the other strains may resist or ignore the virus, therefore preventing a complete loss. We use both Windows computers and Macintoshes in a mixed network, NEVER allowing the Windows boxes to touch the internet. The Macintoshes [connected to the internet] have received just about every recent virus and worm, but since almost all of the viruses are written for Windows and Outlook [removed from the Macs] they are all DOA [dead on arrival] on the Macintoshes. Since it is almost a full-time job keeping up with patches and virus fixes, it is prudent to make your network more resilient via node diversity. Valdis http://www.orgnet.com Barry Wellman wrote: > > this is a total hoax, inadvertantly being spread by you for altruistic > reasons. > > (and it also a nice example of diffusion of info by small world > networks). > > indeed, the hoax is truly destructive -- it leads you to delete a possibly > useful Javascript file. > > please don't post virus warnings to this, or any, list. > > please send an email to all those you have warned, and ask them not to > spread this hoax further. indeed, the hoax is the real virus. > > and in any case, before you ever warn folks, go to the symantec website, > www.symantec.com, which does a good job of alerting folks to real viruses. > and if you don't believe them because they make Norton AntiVirus, go to > the official CERT website. > > Barry > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director > [log in to unmask] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman > > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 > ___________________________________________________________________ > > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Richard Rothenberg wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:53:38 -0700 > > From: Richard Rothenberg <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: A possible virus > > > > I got word that I was sent a virus and did indeed find it on my hard > > drive, I was told that it sits on the drive for 14 days and then sends > > itself to everyone in the address book. > > > > The virus is called: jdbgmgr.exe > > > > Please search your hard drive and if you find it, delete it and empty > > the recycle bin. Specific instructions below. > > > > Please note as well that some things of this sort are actually just mock > > viruses, practical jokes that someone is playing. This may be the case > > here, but it is probably not worth finding out for sure. (AT the very > > least, I was warned that I might have received it, and I did.) If you > > find it on your hard drive, and delete it, you should tell everyone in > > your address book about it. (Like others, I have many in my address > > book with whom I haven't communicated in eons, and some with whom I've > > never communicated. To those: Hello, and please forgive the intrusion.) > > > > My apologies. > > > > Rich > > > > > > Here are the detailed instructions I received, which have the obvious > > earmarks of having been passed around a good bit: > > > > 2. Go to START button, then click on "Find" or> > > "Search" option> > > > 3. Then click on "files or folders".> > > > 4. A window will pop up. Then type the name> > > jdbgmgr.exe in the "Named:" > box. Be sure you search > > your C: drive. Do this by> clicking on the down > > > arrow in the "Look in" box and pick the item that> has > > a "C:" in it.> > > > 5. Click the "Find Now" or "Search" button.> > > > 6. The virus has a tedy bear icon with the file> name > > jdbgmgr.exe> > DO NOT OPEN IT!!> > > > 7. Right click and delete it. It will go to the> > > Recycle Bin> > > > 8. Go to the Recycle Bin and delte it there as> well.> > > > Note if you find the virus, you must contact all > > the> people in your address> > book so they can remove > > it from their computers. I,> and those who > > > inadvertantly pass the virus on, apoplogize for any> > > inconvenience..> > > > > -- > > Richard Rothenberg, MD > > Professor > > Department of Family and Preventive Medicine > > Emory University School of Medicine > > 69 Butler St. SE > > Atlanta, GA 30303 > > Tel: 404-616-5606 > > Fax: 404-616-6847 > > Pager: 404-866-8575 > > Email: [log in to unmask] > >