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Delete Virus Alert Messages

Denise Heagerty , CERN Computer Security Officer (Computer.Security@cern.ch)


Warnings of viruses are almost always hoaxes - please delete them, even if they come from someone you know.

A recent example had the subject:

 VIRUS ALERT - name: jdbgmgr.exe- PLEASE FORWARD
The information in this email is false. The file jdbgmgr.exe is not a virus. It is standard windows file used by the Java debugger. You must never forward email of this kind - just delete it. The CERN computer security team will inform you if there is ever a real alert.

You can check if an email is hoax from the link in the virus section of of the Computer Security home page, http://cern.ch/security



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Vol. XXXVII, issue no 2


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