Recent incident of Cyber Vandalism at a Sister List

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

It is most unfortunate that Cyber vandals and scam

artists continue to be on the prowl to attack non-suspecting

lists like ours .The recent incident experienced by

one of our sister lists is very regrettable.

 

Although as Moderators , most of us exercise approval control

over membership requests and messages sent , some times

these vandals assume stolen identity and send messages

under other legitimate members' names. They make their

moves based on volumes of mails . Further , they

latch on their despicable and abhorrent messages as

attachments to original messages. These vandals

have extremely deceptive ways to get in to anybody's

networks and address books and cause chaos. There does not

seem to be any technical solutions to prevent these attacks

except the drastic measure of recieving mails only from

those who is known to you personally .

 

My request to you all:

 

1. Please install virus scanning systems

even if it is not fool proof. Lot slips in.

 

2. Please reject all suspect mail with suspicious

titles and strangers .

 

3. Please be weary of attachments and those

ending with " SCR, EXE " . Please reject them.

 

3. If any one knows how to stop these offenders

from interfering with our communications in

our Sathsangam lists,please let the moderators know .

 

Thanks very much ,

V.Sadagopan