Gentle Spiders

I went to the Hoax website and found the virus you mention -- it is really
not a virus -- please read below.  The information is taken from the
website.

I always go to this website and check out these things.  You are actually
taking away a part of your windows program but it isn't a part that you
should worry about.   Read on.
Susie Johnson
Morris, Illinois

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Origins:   Like the SULFNBK.EXE hoax, this bogus virus warning (also known
as the "Bear Virus") attempts to lure gullible users into deleting perfectly
innocuous, standard Windows files from their systems.

In  this case the target file is JDBGMGR.EXE, a Java Debug Manager program
used by the Microsoft Java runtime engine. This file is included as part of
a standard Windows installation and is not a "virus." (The icon for this
file is a graphic of a bear like the one shown to the left.)

If you deleted this file, don't sweat it - JDBGMGR.EXE is only important to
programmers who use Microsoft Visual J++ 1.1 to develop Java programs. Its
absence will not cause your PC to stop working or interfere with your
applications, so if you're not a Java developer, you don't have to worry
about restoring it. Consider the experience a lesson learned about the
perils of believing and acting upon unverified e-mail warnings.

Windows 2000 and Windows ME include a Windows File Protection (WFP) feature
that will recover shared files such as JDBGMGR.EXE if they are overwritten
or deleted. Users of other Windows operating systems can only retrieve
JDBGMGR.EXE by reinstalling the Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) component,
but Microsoft is no longer offering it as a download.

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