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Virtually yours The 8bitjoystick Support Team
God this is rich. I just got this virus/spam and it is a hoot. I love the anti virus tag-line at the end of it and the irony that they are trying to spread a spam zombie virus by claiming to be an anti zombie spam announcement. The sad thing is that there are probably thousands of suckers that fall for this. I betcha that my Mac is completely immune to being infected with this crap.
Dear 8bitjoystick Member,
Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to cancel your membership.
Virtually yours,
The 8bitjoystick Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ 8bitjoystick Antivirus - www.8bitjoystick.com
Update: Hey it looks like they are still at it. PS. There is no email address like that.
Dear 8bitjoystick user,
You have successfully updated the password of your 8bitjoystick account.
If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact 8bitjoystick customer service at: support@8bitjoystick.com
Thank you for using 8bitjoystick!
The 8bitjoystick Support Team
Jake at June 14, 2005 
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Ha!
I work at an ISP and we get calls about these CONSTANTLY. It's amazing how many people actually open the attachments (including workers here). Sad.
Posted by: snortin_php at June 15, 2005 7:05 AM
Jake,
Are you following the news on the PSP launcher for firmware 1.5? Apparently PSP_dev has hacked the PSP to allow homebrew apps to run on 1.5. The link is at:
http://www.psphacker.com/2005/06/homebrew-for-psp-v150-firmware.html
PSP Junkies and Tom's Hardware Guide is covering it as well at:
http://www.pspjunkies.com/content/view/420/1/
I'd like to see more besides screenshot and videos, but both PSPs I have were already upgraded to 1.51. There's repeated warnings in Spanish that the "it's for 1.5 only, and will not work on 1.52" ...given the odd wording, I wonder if they forgot to test under 1.51 or forgot to say "1.51 *AND* 1.52" in the warning.
Know anyone with 1.5 willing to test?
- Ken
Posted by: Ken at June 15, 2005 9:17 AM
Yeah I can't wait to give it a shot
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at June 16, 2005 1:26 AM
Okay, don't laugh, but I actually opened one of those stupid attachments. When it didn't do anything, I kept clicking on it. I know... I am incredibly inept when it comes to this stuff. Thank God for system restore otherwise people like me would be stuck reading a stupid Yahoo web bar in Korean.
Posted by: Redhead at June 18, 2005 2:32 AM
