Back in the dos days, there was this thing going around that said that if you typed deltree at the prompt, It was a game. Of course it wasn't, it would delete all your files. The file jdbgmgr.exe is a file that has something to do with jdbc I think. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Hoax virus was Re: more worms > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > I got a warning about that hoax at work. That's really dirty! With all > > these real viruses doing real damage, somebody takes advantage of people's > > ignorance and has them deleting part of their system. With all these > > viruses going around, I sometimes wonder if the antivirus software vendors > > perhaps write viruses in their spare time so they can sell more software? > > You could be right, I wouldn't like to comment. However it's not the > first time this sort of thing has gone round. This one is just something > to do with java display, or it might be a java applette or something like > that, but the first one of its type, sulf something, was to do with being > able to save files with names longer than 8.3. > > Cheers. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
