Hoax virus was Re: more worms

[Alex Snow]

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 at bigfoot.com>
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.
>
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