“Intuit is slowly recovering from a massive site outage that has taken down its main site and several of its online services since Tuesday night, stranding potentially hundreds of thousands of customers without business services.”
http://community.intuit.com/post/detail/arLTS0Ey4r36uBacfA8pyY
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Sometimes it isnt easy to remove a virus directly in Windows. Linux can often be used to get around this (as well as file recovery, backups etc..).
ghacks.net has a good tutorial that shows you how to do this using F-Prot. At Byte Knights we do something simlilar using Kaspersky Antivirus.
Google has turned on scripting for for Google Docs. This could be game changer for Google breaking into the enterprise market, which is heavily dependent on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for glue logic and extending the functionality of MS Office.
Just finished reading Gary Vaynerchucks “Crush It!” . The book is a quick read at 142 pages but provides a good a primer on social networking and building an online brand. Easier said than done.
Gary’s recipe for being a social media mogul is a follows:
The Consumerist has a post that details someones experience getting a DC Power Jack Repaired at Office Depot. Lets just say it wasn’t very successful!
Key Takeaways :
The Register has a post on Laptop Failure Rates.
Key Points…
“1 in 3 Laptops fail over 3 years”
“Netbooks fail 20% more than laptops”
“ASUS and Toshiba the most reliable”
“Acer, Gateway & HP had failure rates significantly higher than the average”
“Looking at the first 3 years of ownership, 31% of laptop owners reported a failure”
“Two-thirds of this failure (20.4%) came from hardware malfunctions, and one-third (10.6%) was reported as accidental damage”
Ranking of Malfunction Rate (Highest to Lowest)
Source: The Register more details
A poll of Lifehacker readers ranked AVG as the #1 Antivirus software. Reading through the comments it looks like not everyone agrees. Personally we have found AVG to a good free alternative, despite the ever increasing bloat that the program has started to accumulate.
Byte Knights recommends Kaspersky for its clients. Still AVG is a good alternative for home users looking for a free solution.
Related: Five Best Antivirus Applications
