Nama Shivaya, Kenna's Mac is immune to bagles & beagles

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Nama Shivaya!

 

This is an all-Mac household. Worm-free!

 

But not all messages from kenna's address are safe, because there is an

infected computer(s) out there (a PC, not a Mac!) that has her in its

address book. Another characteristic of these worms is that they send

messages "from" anyone in the local address book. That is, they fake the

return address.

 

Judgement is required. If the subject line is obviously spam, like "Notify

about using email account", don't open it.

 

A subject line beginning with Nama Shivaya is probably safe because, though

beagles may be clever, they don't speak sanskrit! (at least not yet...)

 

Om Amriteshwaryai Namaha,

 

murari

 

(kenna's geekier husband)

 

p.s.

 

on 3/20/04 1:45 PM, kasi_visvanath at kasi_visvanath wrote:

 

> Ammachi, George4Mata <leokomor> wrote:

>> Namah Shivaya:

>>

>> I seem to recall that a similar email was suspected of being a

> virus.

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> Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!

>

> Namaskarams!!

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> indeed, i believe that George is correct...it appears that Kenna's

> computer has been infected by one of the "Beagle" worms....one of the

> Characteristics of that worm is the typical subject lines of the

> mail, of which, both of Kenna's messages fit the bill...one of the

> ways that the worm apparently typically tries to get you to open the

> mail is by referring itself to the email account which the receiver

> belongs to...for example for me it sent a message apparently

> from "staff"...my email provider....but with the same

> subject line as the second of "Kenna's" messages...

>

> this info can be found at the Symantec, Norton Antivirus pages....

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> whenever in doubt as to the authenticity of a message, the wisest

> thing is to NOT open it....and keep your antivirus program up to date!

>

> sometimes they can look so REAL>...SO like they are coming from a

> legitimate source that we can get taken in....

>

> i was taken in this week by a message which had a trojan hiding in

> it...luckily the antivirus program on this computer caught it in

> time...

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> so dear sisters and brothers...it is very important to be extremely

> careful with our email these days, as more and more worms, viruses,

> and trojans are being generated every day...and being sent to US

> every day....i'm sure that i must receive at least 3 or 4 virus laden

> messages every day...perhaps more...but luckily they generally wind

> up in my junk mail....and i DO NOT open them...(Except that mistake

> earlier this week..got taken in too...but luckily had a good

> antivirus program to stop that trojan in it's tracks.)

>

> so if we are seeing any emails on this list which do not appear to

> make sense in reference to the list's direction of inquiry, then i

> would suggest to NOT open....cause the virus hasn't figured out how

> to configure the subject to the email list's contents....

>

> anyways...enough of this ....

>

> i trust and pray that Amma is blessing you, my sisters and brothers,

> and protecting you always...

>

> In Amma's Divine Love,

> and in Her Service,

> as ever,

> visvanathan

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> Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!

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> Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha!

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