Got an emial just now from a guy saying he sent me and everyone in his book a virus. THE TEDDY BEAR VIRUS!!! The e-mail came with instructions on how to delete it. It can be a confirmed virus if you see a little teddy bear icon next to it. Well, I found it and before I deleted it, I thought I would e-mail the guy who e-mailed, warning me of this dreaded virus just to confirm. You know those emails you get warning you of a virus and telling you to delete a valuable assett to your cpu. They quickly confirmed that it is NOT A VIRUS AND TO NOT DELETE IT!!!!!!!.
To verify, I am here at Letterhead to see if anyopne else has got this and what theey did. The "teddybear icon" is the misleading part because it doesn't seem professional/ technical looking.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Usually its a HOAX email designed to get you perform some system file deletion...
Whenever I get a virus warning in email, I go to google and type in "[Virus Name Here] hoax". This pretty reliably determines for me if it's real or not.
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
99% of all email warnings a BS if your concerned about a virus go to Symantecs site and they have every virus know no man and even some that arent
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Corey, good to see your 'gut feeling' is working today.
Posted by Terry Baird (Member # 3495) on :
The "Teddy Bear" virus is a hoax. I got the same message last spring, deleted the file and found out from a techie friend that the hoax had been around for quite while. No big deal though. He said that the file is on the windows disk and can be reloaded if you really want to. I never did and haven't had any problems at all.
