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Netsky-D makes your PC go beep, beep, beep

Mar 1, 2004 5:06AM PST

By John Leyden
Posted: 01/03/2004 at 18:37 GMT

An email worm posing as a PIF file is spreading rapidly across the Net today.

The Netsky-D worm is clogging in-boxes already sagging under the collective load of five new variants of the Bagle worm and sundry other irritants.

Netsky-D normally arrives in email with a variety of subject names (including Re: Approved, Re: Details, Re: Document, Re: Your letter), message texts and a PIF attachment. As usual, the worm is a Windows-only menace.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/35941.html

Don't open unsolicited email attachments, update AV signature files and wear a regulation tin-foil hat.

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AFDB instructions.
Mar 1, 2004 5:31AM PST

Tin Foil Hat
Typically made with aluminum foil, this head-gear protects the wearer's brain from the effects of mind control and can block the intrusions of mind readers. An effective and low-cost solution to combating mind-control, it is popular among less wealthy paranoids. Also known by the more technical term "Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie" (AFDB).

An excerpt from the definitive online AFDB work, http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html:

An Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie (AFDB) is a type of headwear that can shield your brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers. AFDBs are inexpensive (even free if you don't mind scrounging for thrown-out aluminium foil) and can be constructed by anyone with at least the dexterity of a chimp (maybe bonobo). This cheap and unobtrusive form of mind control protection offers real security to the masses. Not only do they protect against incoming signals, but they also block most forms of brain scanning and mind reading, keeping the secrets in your head truly secret. AFDBs are safe and operate automatically. All you do is make it and wear it and you're good to go! Plus, AFDBs are stylish and comfortable.

What are you waiting for? Make one today!

Q: Does it have a self-powered propeller to cool the head?

A: No, it depends on the wearer to remain calm.

Q: Does the reflective side of the tinfoil go in or out?

A: That depends on signal origin. Don't forget that you have to ground the hat to get the desired effect.

Science is not a strong point among the paranoid.

Someone has their Tin Foil Hat on too tight! Contributors: MaggieMcFee, MartySchrader

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Optional:
Mar 1, 2004 7:07AM PST

Optional:
You may augment your AFDB with random bits of foil, wire, small electronic parts, etc..

Canadian coins should also be considered as they are high in nickel content. Nickel, while not having the psychotronic deflecting properties of aluminum (or even tin), can act to refract psychotronic beams, thereby helping to scrambling the mind control signals as they are deflected off of the underlying aluminum surface of the AFDB. This will result in a lowered chance of retransmission of the signal.

However, you should avoid American and European coins at all costs as they contain aluminum based mind control circuitry. Canadian coins are free of this threat mainly due to the Canadian government's choice of neglecting psychotronic research in favor of research into giant robotics.

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(NT) Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - good fun
Mar 1, 2004 8:23AM PST

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