On twitterWe’ve had a spate of customer’s machines get infected with this over the last week. Had us scratching our heads for a few hours … thought it was conficker or some variant but it seems not. Looks like it was actually Trojan:Win32/Daonol.B
Symptoms
Causes some or all of the symptoms below :-
1. Antivirus software won’t update from [...]
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We’ve been using Microsoft Groove for a couple of years now to synchronise a shared company folder between our geographically distributed users. It hasn’t been touched since it was set up two or three years ago and I’ve been wanting to revisit and look at alternatives for a while. Groove is overkill for us and [...]
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I’ve resisted this for a long time, preferring the traditional self-hosted, outright purchase model and have been a very reluctant convert! But over the last few months I’ve been starting to use more applications that operate on a SAAS basis.
Evernote
Remember The Milk
SourceAnywhere Hosted
Net Intelligence
Google Apps
Why?
These applications are VERY good at what they do – they [...]
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People continually badger me (in a completely good natured way of course!) for concentrating on the Windows platform. I have tried Mac OS (briefly) & Linux of various persuasions over the years. Want to know why I’m still stuck with MS?
1. It’s what all our customers use
We work in the SME sector in the [...]
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I’m now using Google Reader for reading most online content – I’ll be sharing any interesting stuff I come across on my link blog – you can view or subscribe to my shared link blog here – Iain’s Link Blog.
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It’s nearly Christmas! And the phones were quiet this afternoon (for once!). And my PC at work has been driving me around the bend for the last 3 months, so it was time for drastic action …..
After a fresh reinstall of Vista SP1 64bit – here are the tools that are pretty much essential to [...]
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“I took this picture at the local post office,” George writes, “I guess they must have installed the same computers they use in airplanes and hospitals.”
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Sensitive-Computers.aspx
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Our client is now 28 days without broadband. On a business service! I’m fast coming to the opinion that the “ADSL broadband system” is completely unfit for purpose, and for a normally placid individual I’m finding it hard to contain my rage! Whoever at BT is responsible for this debacle of a system should be [...]
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This :-
UK flights hit by computer glitch
British airports were forced to delay and cancel flights
Flights to and from UK airports have been cancelled and delayed because of a computer problem at the main air traffic control centre at Swanwick.
Air traffic controllers said the computer glitch had now been fixed, but it is unclear when delays [...]
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At this rate I might as well rename this the Google Blog! But this is quite cool/interesting – http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/
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