April month's 1st day is well known for its own tradition of cracking jokes among ourselves ,making fun of others and fooling others for no reason.Everyone has there own reasons to celebrate this day.Some celebrate because it is fun and some celebrate this day because it will relieve all their pressure.The fact is "No one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began".
During the time of ancient Romans and Celts they celebrated a festival of mischief-making.The first mentions of an All Fool's Day.
The most widespread theory of the origin of April Fool's Day is the switch from the old Julian to the Gregorian calendar (now in use) in the late 16th century. Under the Julian calendar, the New Year was celebrated during the week between March 25 and April 1, but under the Gregorian calendar, it was moved to Jan. 1. Those who were not notified of the change, or stubbornly kept to the old tradition, were often mocked and had jokes played on them on or around the old New Year.
In France people celebrate this day in the form of pranksters sticking fish on the backs of those who celebrated the old custom, earning the victims of the prank the name Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish.
In Scotland people celebrate this day as the butts of April Fool's jokes were known as April "Gowks," another name for a cuckoo bird.
When ,Where and Why April fools day begin
Latest Doomsday Computer Attack
Conficker is the latest doomsday computer attacks.After reading this lot of questions will be pumped up in all our minds.Is this real? will it happen?
bla bla bla.....Some questions are even answered by many experts in Computer technology and Computer security.Many big gaintriders in computers like Microsoft are even responded and trying to find solutions....
What is Conficker?
Computer experts say the Conficker infection -actually a computer "worm" that can copy itself to computers that aren't protected - is designed to start receiving new instructions from its designers on April Fool's Day, but experts say there are no signs yet that it will take down the Internet as we know it.
Who is doing this?
The best answer for this is 'Hackers'.
Why are hackers doing this?
Because this worm is capable of your computer keystrokes, including your passwords. Criminals might use this information to try to steal money from bank accounts.
Some experts say this is why they don't expect a major computer shutdown April 1. If computers aren't working, the worm can't spread and can't capture passwords.
"They don't want to bring down the infrastructure," Paul Ferguson, an advanced-threats researcher for Trend Micro, said in an interview with Cnet.com. "That would not allow them to continue carrying out their scams."
Should we be worried?
The professionals say don't panic. Vincent Weafer, vice president of security response for Symantec, the company that makes Norton AntiVirus, says the worm is a security concern, but the chance of a major computer failure April 1 "is really not very likely."
Panic could make things worse. If people flock to the Internet to download security patches that aren't the real deal, Conficker might be hidden in fake patches, which would make it easier for the worm to spread.
How do I get rid of Conficker?
Microsoft notes that if you're already infected with Conficker, the worm actually might prevent you from downloading security patches that would remove it. In fact, the latest version of the worm released earlier in March was designed to stop those patches from updating. If you can't patch your PC, Microsoft suggests you try using the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner.
Is my computer infected already?
Your home computer might be safer than your computer at work. If you have set your PC to download Microsoft Windows patches automatically, you were probably protected before the worm had a chance to sneak onto your computer.
How can I prevent this?
First, you can add Microsoft's security patches to your computer. You can use this patch from Panda Security, which will vaccinate any virus that's on a thumb drive or other items that connect to computer USB ports. You can keep up with automatic updates of computer anti-virus software.
If you want anti-virus software on the cheap, USA Today recommends WinPatrol. There's a free version as well as a $30 version that's more consumer-friendly.
Microsoft Malicious Software removal free Download
(Go to your Control Panel -> Security and there you’ll see the needed security updates).
Microsoft Malicious software removal along with windows defender and updated antivirus can provide the necessary protection to your PC.It’s also able to provide protection against Koobface virus, the one that wreaked havoc in Facebook and Myspace.
The free malicious software removal tool is only 9.8MB in file size and loads fast. After downloading this utility, you can install it and choose to do a Quick Scan or Full Scan of your your computer running Windows Vista, Windows XP and other supported Windows platforms.
Microsoft has this to say about removing malicious files from your system
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You can clean specific files or all the infected files that the tool finds.The removal tool may request that you restart your computer to complete the removal of some malicious software, or it may prompt you to perform manual
steps to complete the removal of the malicious software. To complete the removal, you should use an up-to-date antivirus product.
IS THIS END OF PAKISTAN CRICKET?
The whole cricketing world was shocked and Indian players felt lucky because they might have toured Pakistan in the place of Srilankan team. Srilankan government was shocked with security lapses to Srilankan team even though they received warning from terrorists before terror strike itself and the ICC officials for the match expressed their view on security in negative manner.
This terror strike by deadly terrorist group on Srilankan players had almost ended the cricket in Pakistan two srilankan players were seriously injured but however they are out of danger.Now with many teams refusing to tour Pakistan it will surely affect their economic status and thus this the time that Pakistan board pull their socks up and increase security in Pakistan and this measure only can make them to host 2011 world.
And special thanks to Srilankan team driver who rescued srilankan team .
Aussies Back On Track
But now with entry of few youngsters such as Hughes,North,Siddle,Hilfenaus makes the team comfortable.The way Australians played first test against South Africa seems that they are back in the business to dominate the opposition.Hughes played like Hayden and Haddin(wk) is filling in shoes of world's best wicket keeper Gilchrist and the bowling line up looks solid with Johnson,Siddle.
The only thing the Australians lack is good spinner.It seems That Australians will wrap up test series and take up their no 1 position and the one day series against SA will be interesting because if Australians wins it they will take up no 1 in one day rankings also.Thanks to the youngsters of Australia Who made Impossible as Possible.
SACHIN ROCKS NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS
After the wicket of Sehwag , Gambhir walked into the crease Gambhir in the beginning had a shaky start but at the other end Sachin played his natural game and took off pressure from Gambhir.Gambhir departed at last and in walked sixer king Yuvi started of quietly and started to play his natural game.
But at the other end Sachin looked dangerous and then Indians thought this is the best time to take batting power play 23-27 and then yuvi and Sachin combo made full use of the power play due to this run rate peeked above 6.But unfortunately Yuvi(Yuvaraj) departed for mind blowing knock of 87 with couple of maximum hits and captain marvel Dhoni walked in and he joined party with Sachin and he too went after NewZealand bowlers.Sachin hits many sixes and at one point of time it looked certain that Sachin is going to hit 200.
But unfortunately Sachin retired hurt at 163*.But this retired hurt by Sachin does not stopped tempo of India with Dhoni and Raina going after and this aggression made the lanky speedster Tim Sou thee to give more than 100 runs in 10 overs but one good over from Kyle Mills cost the wicket of Dhoni for 69 trying to up the run rate and at last India finished off at 392/4 with the help of Sachin's knock of 163.Thanks to Sachin for his blistering knock.
