Inge & any who wish may go to this page http://www.thebookguy.com/Virus.htm of my web site & see the latest hoax viruses & real ones to be careful of. It is kept current by Sophos Anti-Virus. Any time you receive an unsolicited email about a virus or anything be careful. Also know that most anti-virus systems as the email mentions do stay current on the real & hoax viruses. Ed West "From: "Inge" <inge@xxxxxxxxx> > Good morning all you computer experts, > The note below was in my inbox this morning and before I do anything I = > would > like to ask you whether this is for real. I found two of the teddy bear = > exe > files on my hard drives. Should I delete them? > Everyone, I am so sorry, but I was infected by the Bugbear virus which > is not picked up by Anti-virus systems. It sends itself to > everyone in your address book and because I've been infected it's very > likely that you will have been too. We did find this virus in our > computer and removed it following these simple instructions. The virus > (called jdbgmgr.exe) is not detected by Norton or McAfee > Anti-virus systems. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.474 / Virus Database: 272 - Release Date: 4/19/03 Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.