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April Fool's Day story clarification
News The story was one of many such jokes published by various members of UK media, where the April Fool's Day practice is widespread and something of a journalist's tradition. It has been brought to our attention that a small number of readers may not...
[April 6, 2000, 10:16]
April Fool: Timing's right for a virus
News Basically, some Windows-based programs become confused when Daylight Savings Time kicks off on 1 April, creating an accidental April Fool's joke. On Sunday 8 April, the problem corrects itself. A two-year-old bug in Microsoft software will finally...
[March 30, 2001, 13:41]
Microsoft confirms April Fool's bug
News The fact that April 1, 2001, falls on a Sunday confused an algorithm within the file, which leads to a one-week delay in beginning daylight savings time. A bug reported by a Massachusetts programmer will cause some Windows applications to behave as...
[January 13, 1999, 11:05]
Parallels boss sees no joke in April Fool's
News Beloussov was the victim of an April Fool's Day joke, but as jokes go it was not a very good one, according to Parallels. When ZDNet.co.uk contacted Beloussov on April Fool's he made it clear that Parallels was not up for sale.
[April 2, 2008, 16:20]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News These and other more believable spoofs were among the stories making their way around the Web on Monday, April 1. To make his April Fools' joke as believable as possible, Kaplan tweaked the Web address of the fake story so that it looked like it...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Downadup heading for April Fool's mayhem
News It also is programmed to begin connecting to 50,000 different domains on 1 April to receive updated copies or other malware, as opposed to connecting to 250 domains a day as previous versions are doing, Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager for...
[March 16, 2009, 8:06]
The Week in Review: Fooling the tech industry
News April Fool's Day fell on this week, a very confusing time for many IT journalists -- particularly the type who specialise in linking to apparently important stories on other Web sites. Unfortunately for Microsoft, this report came out just around...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
Foolish stories aren't just for April
Leader The origins of April Fool’s day are obscure. More fool us. Some say it was the move from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the sixteenth century, when the beginning of the year changed from 1 April to 1 January - those who were slow to cotton...
[April 1, 2005, 14:20]
OOXML result will come Wednesday
Blog However, it would be fair to assume that ISO already knows the answer - it's not that many votes that need counting, after all - so, assuming Reuters is correct, there are two possible reasons why tomorrow (Tuesday) won't be the announcement day...
[March 31, 2008, 20:26]
Microsoft lauds IE as 'the most secure browser'
Talkback HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA april fool ? too soon ms!
[February 20, 2004, 23:46]
BackHack
Downloads It's April Fool's Day all year 'round with the BackHack system extension! Once installed and activated, it harmlessly reverses nearly all of the onscreen text. Try it on your own PalmPilot to amaze and astound your friends.
[December 15, 2000, 6:00]
Encrypted bots could be the next threat
Talkback Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. Is this a joke? I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. Worms that act in a "retarded" but mass effort haven't _commonly_ used encryption for the past 5 years or so (some of...
[November 15, 2005, 17:29]
T-Mobile trademarks colour, issues legal threats
Blog File this one under "I-wish-it-was-an-April-Fool's-joke-but-it-isn't". Engadget, the mobile blog, has received a nasty letter from T-Mobile's lawyers demanding that it stop using the colour magenta. Because T-Mobile pwns magenta.
[April 2, 2008, 10:45]
Conficker worm fails to wreak predicted havoc
News April Fool's does certainly seem to have been a joke on us," wrote Stewart. The Conficker worm variant expected to mobilise on 1 April activated as expected, but did not upload any new malware, according to security companies.
[April 2, 2009, 17:02]
Report: Orange and Apple in MacBook bundle talks
Blog Comment Bit early for an April fool. You know Apples and Oranges an' all that malarky. I'm sure the Orange stores will be packed if this comes to umm.fruition?
[March 29, 2009, 2:38]
Symbiot launches DDoS counter-strike tool
Talkback Given the article was posted on 10 March, it is unlikely to be an April Fool. Attacking the "Apparently From" is, as previous commenters have noted, useless as they are just unlucky to be on someone's contact list who has a virus (in my case, two...
[April 2, 2004, 7:12]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I think that RedHat's opinion that "LINUX is not mature enough for the desktop" and the unofficial blessing of Windows to temporarily replace it can only serve as an April Fool's day heading. As a sys admin and consultant, I am grateful to RedHat...
[November 5, 2003, 19:32]
Email worm graduates to IM
News The Chod.B worm, which was first discovered on April Fool's day, spreads via email purportedly from Microsoft, or security vendors Symantec and Trend Micro. In fact, security firm Websense has warned that hackers are increasingly using instant...
[April 4, 2005, 9:45]
Open season for phishing as attacks soar
News Phishing is an Internet scam where official-looking emails attempt to fool users into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. The quantity and quality of phishing attacks grew at an alarming rate in April, according...
[May 25, 2004, 13:45]
