By now most everyone with a little technical knowledge had heard of the damn Sun/Microsoft java dispute. If not read up on it here. Anyhow, also recently a virus hoax has been spreading through email, and actually, I think it first hit over a year ago, but has recently resurfaced. You know the one, the teddybear virus? It tells you to delete the file called Jdbgmgr.exe. Well don't. Reason being, if you have WinXP or any other MS OS that didn't include the MS Java VM, you won't be able to get it back. Well, won't be able to get it back without people like me. Click here to download the MS Java VM for WinXP. In most cases, most users don't even need the file. Only java developers using MS VJ++ do. Read Q322933 for more info. Anyhow, my point being, the origin of the hoax email. I bet my ass that it was Sun who sent it out knowing that Microsoft would be removing the downloads for the VM because of the lawsuit they brought up. Makes ya think huh? Make people delete a file that they can't get back since they can't download it anymore, making people believe that they need to instead go install the Sun Java VM. Interesting eh?
07-08-2003 Edit:
After you download the file, rename the extention back to .exe, then run it to install the MS Java VM.