Real purpose of Conficker worm revealed

After an anti-climactic April’s Fool Day when the Conficker worm apparently failed to “phone home” for its dreaded instructions, its real purposes are now revealed. An analysis by the respected Kaspersky Labs concludes that the worm offers its victims a fake anti-virus product that will supposedly remove all malware for $49.95. It also downloads an email worm called Waledac, which steals passwords and sends spam.
Users should note that Conficker only affects Windows operating systems. Mac and Linux users are safe within the Mac OS part of their systems, and are vulnerable only within the Windows environments that they may run on their machines.
(Source: Wired) | Cost: | Requires: Windows | For further info...

Thanks for the videos

Lest you think that The Library of Congress was just about books, it has begun releasing videos from its archives through its own YouTube channel, starting with 70 historical videos, inclulding the first ever moving image (a man sneezing), films from the Thomas Edison studio and industrial films from Westinghouse factories.
(Source: Wired) | Cost: Free | For further info...

Home Sweet Home, in 3D

Sweet Home 3D 1.8 from eTeks is an open-source, Java-based application for drawing the plan of a home, arranging furniture on it, and displaying the results in a 3D view. Doors, windows and items from a built-in catalogue of furniture and fixtures may be dragged in and resized manually after placement. Various textures of wood, tiles and others may be applied to surfaces, and changes in plan are seen immediately in a rendered 3D view plan and realtime walkthroughs are also possible. The quality of rendering is equivalent of most low-cost offerings of the past twenty years, but unlike others, Sweet Home 3D is offered under a GNU/GPL licence.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: Free (donations accepted) | Requires: Mac OS X 10.4+, Linux\Unix, or Windows | For further info...