It’s still around

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

File this under the headline of “old hoaxes never die”. I’ve been dealing with the jdbgmgr.exe hoax this morning. Apparently, someone with another organization fell for this one and passed it on. You should see the “to” line of the email. There are more addresses there than I care to even guess at. Let me put it this way, using Outlook 2003, on an XP machine set to 1024×768 pixels, I have to scroll more than halfway through the message to get past the addresses. Nice.

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