Frickin' Teddy Bear Icon...Again!

Shouldn't everyone in the world know by now that the notorious jdbgmgr.exe file and the accompanying teddy bear icon are legitimate Windows files and that any message suggesting otherwise is a hoax???

It boggles the mind how short a memory the average user base has. I think we have sent bulletins and alerts notifying the users that this is a hoax asking them to cease and desist forwarding any "virus warnings" to their entire address list and stressing that any virus issues go through the proper channels for investigation and alerts as required.

Yet- seemingly every 3 to 6 months- some yahoo is always starting this jdbgmgr.exe hoax again and everyone falls for it- AGAIN!

I don't want to be like a Tom Clancy who gives ideas to the bad guys- but if I were a malicious code writer I certainly would have written a real virus by now with a very similar name to jdbgmgr.exe as the executable and stolen the teddy bear icon to associate it with. Everyone is so used to it being a hoax (or should be, but seemingly aren't as evidenced by the fact that our users keep re-circulating the fu*king hoax) and wouldn't think twice about it.

Does anyone else keep seeing this or are my users just unusually dense??

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Originally posted here by tonybradley
Does anyone else keep seeing this or are my users just unusually dense??

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No it's not just your users, I get at least one a month. The user usually contacts me AFTER he/she has already deleted the file and sent the e-mail to all his/her friends. <airheads>


Cheers:

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Originally posted here by tonybradley
Does anyone else keep seeing this or are my users just unusually dense??

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I've never seen this hoax before, but I sympathise. Educating users is like hearding cats.

Our IT department motto (very bad latin - if someone can do this right I'd be overjoyed):

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Facio Educo Petaso

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L8rs,
Steve

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Originally posted here by steve.milner
I've never seen this hoax before, but I sympathise. Educating users is like hearding cats.

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HERE is the write-up on it.


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Hopefully people will learn. but then someone else will come out with some new and then it will start all over again. I always tell people to check with a antivirus site to check it out first before sending out mass emails about things they think is a virus and 99% of the time it is a bunch of BullSh!t :mad:

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Originally posted here by tonybradley
I don't want to be like a Tom Clancy who gives ideas to the bad guys- but if I were a malicious code writer I certainly would have written a real virus by now with a very similar name to jdbgmgr.exe as the executable and stolen the teddy bear icon to associate it with. Everyone is so used to it being a hoax (or should be, but seemingly aren't as evidenced by the fact that our users keep re-circulating the fu*king hoax) and wouldn't think twice about it.

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Well, even worst..

give out infected (trojaned) jdbgmgr.exe file to replace the one the (l)users just deleted !!

luckily, my users are pretty cautious, and get my approval before doing anything. which includes rebooting their machine.... /sigh/....

except on fridays, when the gates open and everything seems to come out of the woodwork. I guess that's so i'll remember to fix it on satuday.

as far as the hoax goes, i'ld rather see the *hoax* warnings floating arround incessantly than the occasional virus warning (hoax) and people deleting stuff.

-i hope i phrased that correctly.

LOL, I have been seeing this for years and years.... even when everyone was on pine mail!

You know what works for the repeat offender Tom? If you can get away with it... public email humilation to the originator. :)

I get sick of multiple people forwarding it to me. However, the worst is when the same person forwards it to me that did a month ago. That's why I empathize with tonybradley, my users are very dense as well.

LOL. The worst is when an executive at a security firm forwards it to you claiming that a sr level engineer at Bell labs sent it to said executive. **shakes head**

Yes, I get end users reporting this from time to time and it does come in waves as you have noted. In fact, about 2 weeks ago it surfaced again and that's about the same time I got the e-mail from a top exec at a security firm. I can't/wont release the name in order to protect the guilty and/or innocent. ;)

--TH13

Tony: With all due respect - SHUT UP...... ;)

I hadn't heard from any of my users for a few months about this "virus". I read your post, giggled and carried on working. I just got a message from one of my VP's extolling the reliability and good sense of the person who just forwarded him this very "virus" warning. He was also "gracious" enough to say that "I am trusting that you will check into her concern addressed below"....... Needless to say, I didn't bother.... but I wrote a terse note back.....

But it was you who jinxed me - I swear..... I was on a record run there..... You ruined it..... ;)

well the company i work for only allows internal email (higher end users have access to external mail but not your standard user as they have no need to contact anyone except people in other separtments of the company...or recieve memos etc) so such hoaxes would have to originate from inside the company which limits the amount of such hoaxes recieved (plus no spam etc)
there is still the odd problems associated with the emails but not in the volume other companys recieve. I think this is due to the fact as well that each terminal has no floppy or cd-rom drive (external usb drives are used) and internet access (as well as general computer access) is monitored strictly - has to be that way tho as we are dealing with customers debit card details - bank details as well as all contact details (inc exdirectory phone listings) so everything has to be very strongly protected.

v_Ln

at least "that" problem is solved...firewall blocks all executables for most users...all in upper mgmt are given no permissions

is Clancy under attack for "full disclosure"?

Not just Clancy- any novelist who comes up with a creative attack or bank robbery.

After the movie Money Train thugs used the gasoline tube under the bulletproof glass trick from the movie to rob subway cashiers. After the movie Barbershop thieves borrowed the idea of heisting the whole ATM machine and figuring out how to break into it later.

I have heard speculation that one of Clancy's novels had a story about terrorists flying a passenger jet into the Capitol Building- you have to wonder if Osama is a Clancy fan. :-)

So- I just don't want to be the guy that gives malicious developers the idea to hijack the teddy bear icon. But, I am surprised it hasn't been done yet.

Yeah i too get these all the time. Its really frustating to keep explaining it. I've had the same user fall for it three times. even after i have explained it.

PeacE
-BoB

Nicley recovered from the Yaha, Bugbears then back comes the F@#Can Teddybear..

I thought that the reason it keeps comming back was because there was an inexhaustable supply of Id10t's

Mind you these are from the same group that buy a Computer, demand a Good AV prog.. then They are 100% protected................ for life.


Cheers

LoL, The IT department at my job just sent us all a memo talking about the hoax. Lol....i guess they pretty dense too.