Mendel glanced at the beeping console that had a letter flashing upon it.
He rolled his eyes, "Excuse me..." he said walking across to the console and tapping in a few commands.
APPLY IN PERSON YA MUPPET!
The Virus slipped into the reply was untraceable, but effective, it was carefully designed to cause the senders comm array to overload and rupture, spraying white-hot plasma over the sender. Nasty, efficient, but definitely a good way to resolve the issue of not being able to read.