However, the computer was too old to recognize hard drives over 137GB. I knew that Western Digital had some software that would appease the operating system and the BIOS, but could not find it.

Western Digital got rid of Data Lifegaurd Tools and adopted WD Acronis True Image, and this cause the confusion. DLT 11.2 is that last version to address this 48-bit addressing issue, and nothing else would even recognize the hard drive.

Here is a torrent for DLT 11.2, I hope this saves you much more time than it saved me, to discover what I needed.

Their problem was a text book case of extremely worn rollers. once I installed a pair of new rollers the printer worked without a hitch.

Here is the solution as it appears in the Lexmark Optima  T640 Service Manual:

Error 241 subcode 10:
Page was not properly picked from tray 1.

Possible Causes:
Failure to feed possible causes include:

• Edge locking
• Worn or contaminated pick tires
• Overfilling of tray past the fill line.

Action:

• Fan media.
• Turn media over.
• Reduce amount of media loaded in tray 1.
• Replace pick tires.*

To replace pick tires:

Integrated tray autocompensator pick roll assembly removal

1. Remove the integrated tray, and look underneath the printer for the autocompensator arm. Pull the arm down.



2. Press on the end of the tab (A) and pull the pick roll off the arm. Repeat this step for the pick roll on the other side. Next, gently release the autocompensator arm. Discard the used pick rolls.

Installation

1. Remove the new pick rolls from their packaging.
2. Pull the autocompensator arm down. Locate the recessed area on the pick roll, and align it with the tab on the arm. There are two arrows on each pick roll. Make sure the bottom arrow faces you as you align the recessed area with the tab.



3. Push the pick roll onto the arm with the tab aligned. Repeat this step on the other side to install the other pick roll.



4. Gently release the autocompensator arm. Insert, integrated tray.

I like these simple SEO iPhone Apps because they load the information I need in seconds, and does not require bookmarks, computer resources, or even mouse clicks to get precisely what you need to make a great article.

Safari (iPhone OS 4) - The new suggestive search feature in Mobile Safari is a real gem. It is nice to type in a word or two and have some long tailed keyword suggestions appear before your eyes nearly instantly.

Analytics App — I rarely log into my Google Analytics, because nearly every stat I need  can be accessed with this app. It really is Google Analytics in the pal of your hands.

Domain Scout — Very simple way to check the availability of a domain name.

iKeyword - Simple access to Google’s Keyword Suggestion Tool

iThesaurus - thesauruses are always good sources for keywords, and iThesaurus is fast and accurate

Link Juice

Quicksense - This is a must have application if you use Adsense. You can view today, yesterday, this month, last month, and all time impressions and earnings, and narrow results down to channels.

SEO Advisor — Point this too a web address and give it the keywords you had in mind when you wrote the page, and this app will make sure you have covered the SEO basics, such as title, images, headers, etc.

SEO Master -

SEO Ranking — See where your web pages rank for whichever keywords you choose at a glance, on demand, and in bulk.

Sandboxie is a program that will isolate Internet Explorer from the rest of your computer, which prevents viruses and spyware  from making permanent changes to other programs and data on your computer.

If this is a hassle or you don’t mind changing browsers, I would suggest that Google Chrome is the most secure browser and better overall, because it loads faster, it’s expandable, it’s immune to ActiveX attacks, and it has a sandbox built in.

Secure Your Web Browser Video

Securing Your Browser with Sandboxie — Step by Step

1. Visit http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie to download the latest version.
2. Click on the “From Sandboxie.com” link, to start the download.
3. Click the Run button. (If you don’t see the File Download dialog box. Check for the yellow bar near the top of the browser windows and click the button there first.
4. Click the Run button again.
5. Make sure English is already selected, and click OK.
6. Click the I Agree button, to agree to the terms and continue.
7. Click the Install button on the Sandboxie Setup screen.
8. Click the Next button (2) times.
9. Click the Finish button.

If you want to simplify things by giving your Sandboxie icon an Internet Explorer look:

1. Right click on the Sandboxie Web Browser icon.
2. Choose Rename.
3. Delete everything and type in Internet Explorer (Secure).
4. Right click on your new Internet Explorer (Secure) icon.
5. Click on Properties.
6. Click the Change Icon … button.
7. Paste %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe into the Look for icons in this file: field
8. Choose the Blue “e” that you are used to seeing.
9. Click the OK button.
10. Click the Apply button.
11. Finally, click the OK button.

You should not have a worry free browsing experience, and should not have to be concerned with the latest strand of viruses lurking within websites.

Enjoy!

The Norton removal tool does a thorough job in a couple of clicks. It removes everything that came with your Norton package including LiveUpdates, which is considered a separate program by Norton. It remove all traces of Norton in the registry as well.

Once the Norton Removal tool is complete, it ask to reboot your computer, and after the reboot you can enjoy a Norton free computer.

Removing Norton the old fashioned way would often lead to system crashes or no Internet, because file fragments were left behind.

I personally believe the Norton removal tool is one of the best program Symantec ever created. download the Norton Removal Tool directly from Symantec.

Macs and Viruses Myths Debunked

However, Macs are not easily infected because it is a variant of Linux, which means that Mac applications are self-contained, and does not have to hold it settings in a central repository, such as the Windows Registry.

There are people who have written virus code for the Mac OS operating system, but viruses are much less effective, and much easier to remove that their Windows counterpart.

If Microsoft wanted to really make their operating system more secure they could release an operating system that does not use a registry, but instead uses XML files. This move alone would render current viruses ineffective.

Securing Windows might make since to the user, but it means a lot of lost income to the likes of Symantec, McAfee, Computer Associates, Best Buy, AT&T, and others who either attempt to keep viruses at bay or support you in your virus removal efforts once you have been infected.

Norton Internet Security 2011 Main Screen

• Anti Virus — This is the traditional real-time virus scanner that monitors the activity of malicious files, and offers an alert if something is spotted.

  The downside is that it very rarely catches a virus, even after the virus has compromised the computer and disabled Norton Internet Security 2011 altogether.

• Anti Rootkit — Rootkits are becoming increasingly popular, and I would estimate that by 2012, rootkits will be the dominant form of computer virus protection.

  As far as best anti rootkit protection is concerned, Norton does not even get a mention. Again, just as in the Anti-virus category, Norton Internet Security 2011 can only find the obvious stuff, unfortunately with thousands of viruse variations surfacing daily, most people are not infected by the obvious.

• Bot Protection — Useless jargon to make you think Norton Internet Security 2011 is protecting your computer in ways the competition is not.
• Norton Threat Insight — More marketing jargon. Most security suite will let you learn more about infected files that reside on your computer, but only a few keep the melicious files off of your computer so that you do not need insight about hem in the first place.
• Professional Strength AntiSpam — Does adding the word professional make the AntiSpam module more useful or powerful? No.

  If you use webmail like most of us do for our personal accounts, the anti spam feature will not protect you at all. If you are an Outlook user your company more than like has a good spam filter on their mail server.

  Do using the anti spam is either redundant or useless or both.

• Norton File Insight — Advanced users might appreciate scrutinizing suspicious files, but most advanced users don’t trust Norton. Other users would probably only usse this feature to trouble shoot a potential virus issue with technical support, which probably mean you’re using the feature too late, and Norton has failed you.
• Norton™ Safe Web — Integrated web browser protection, that protects you from web sites with malicious code. Plausible idea, but it takes a toolbar to do it’s job which means less screen real estate. You’d be better off using Google Chrome, which has malicious code protect buily in, in the foem of sandboxing.
• Smart Firewall — Norton Interner Net Security 2011 provides a firewall that attempts to work behind the scene and not alert you of the decisions it has made while you surf the Internet.

  This is a good idea on paper, but when you turn on the computer to browse the Internet, and get the “Page cannot be displayed” error. It would help to know the NIS 2011 blocked all traffic.

• Pulse Updates — Sounds like a re wording of LiveUpdate, which seems to never update daily, hich doesn’t matter when Symantec is always behind the ball hen it comes to protecting users from recent threats.
• Network Monitoring — Useless. It is suppose to protect you from threats that may come from other computers on your network. Seems it’s only good at screwing up your Homegroup (Windows 7) or your workgroup file sharing (Windows XP, Vista)
• Spyware Protection — Redundant.
• Identity Protection — Useless, and never used becaus most people don’t understand how it works.
• Norton Rescue Tools –
• Norton Bootable Recovery Tool — A optional DVD that can be created to help you remove viruses from your computer AFTER Norton Internet Security has let them through.
• Norton Power Eraser — Preston from PC World summed up Norton Power Eraser by stating:

  … Norton Power Eraser is a more aggressive system scanner than the normal Norton malware scanner and is likely to return more false positives. So it’s a good idea, before taking its advice to kill a program, to do a search on what it finds to get a better sense of whether it’s really malware. For example, on my Windows 7 system, Power Eraser reported “shellfolderfix” as being malware, when in fact it is add-on software that helps Windows better remember the size and position of Windows Explorer windows.

  This defeats the set it and forget it simplicity that anti-virus programs should have evolved into at this point. If you have to turn to Google to scrutinize a list of files with awkward names to determine what is malicious and what is not, then you should not put this in the hands of normal users. This feature will either be ignored of at worst cause users to need additional technical support because they removed important files that ultimately rendered their computer unusable.

I am not a big fan of Norton as you can tell. It’s difficult to improve upon a program that has been fatally flawed since it’s inception. I believe Norton Norton Internet Security 2011 main problem is that it has shifted towards being more of a tool that helps you remove viruses after you have been infected instead of keeping you from being infected in the first place.

If you are going to buy an anti-virus program buy one that focuses on prevention. You’ll do better with AVG Internet Security if you ask me. It seems to do everything right.

Oftentimes, the really LOW rates that people are willing to accept to complete your work will be unbelievable, but in the end you get what you pay for.

I’ve been burned by people who charged a little, and people who charged a lot. It really boils down to how effective you are at managing your project.

I don’t think you can run a mammoth corporation through oDesk, although they offer some pretty nifty tools to keep things fair for both you and workers.

Like implementing a a three day review to track workers progress, before releasing payment. Or, holding customer’s money in escrow to ensure that workers get paid fairly.

I believe oDesk can save you time, money and headaches if you can find a talented person to help you complete something you are not trained at, or willing to do. You spare time and frustration, by avoiding the DIY route. You save money, because the marketplace is competitive, which can result in some true service bargains.

My only words of advice is don’t hire the cheapest, and don’t underestimate the ability of foreign workers, because oDesk is filled with a lot of talented foreigners.

You can check out the talent pool at oDesk for free, and don’t pay until you decide to hire some talent, so click here to get started using oDesk.

They were social networking sites, banking sites, and typical websites we visit and trust everyday. I started researching, and discovered that there were at one point 100,000 web sites infected with one particular style of virus.

I have learned the following information along my quest:

• Internet Explorer is extremely vulnerable to attack. Out of the eight people I helped, all of them were using Internet Explorer as their primary web browser.
• Remote support cannot help you. Out of the eight people I helped, AT&T SupportPlus charged $129 to remove the viruses. The end result was a computer that was still infected, and could not connect to the Internet anymore. Each person who requested a refund were given a support ticket number.
• Virus scans came up clean. Norton, McAfee, Ewido, Malwarebytes, and even AVG Free did not detect the virus.
• The only way to recover the computer is by backing up your files and reinstalling Windows from a CD, and not the system recovery partition on your hard drive. (Make sure you do not save any exe, src, and possibly zip files.
• The best way to remove these viruses is by protecting your browser. I have had good fortune using Google Chrome and AVG Internet Security (which provides solid browser protection for Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer).

I was shocked to learn that so many anti virus solutions did not have browser protection, and I was also surprised that Microsoft hasn’t been proactive with patching their browser, or the server side software that allow these exploits to take place. I clicked on an innocent Advertisement on a popular web site, and AVG immediately told me the related site was trying to pass a virus onto my computer.

This is nice for those of us who know about AVG, but how many people do not know about AVG, and place their trust in big brand crappy virus protection like McAfee, Norton, and Trend Micro.

I am dealing with these polymorphic viruses everywhere, so if you have not been infected, thank God. But don’t stretch your luck, I recommend that you migrate to a secure browser like Google Chrome, and purchase AVG Internet Security. I can’t vouch for any other solution.

AVG is running a sale as we speak by offering AVG Internet Security 9.0 for $54, which will protect (1) computer for 2 years , they also have a 3-pack running for $103, and they have a great deal for businesses with the AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition, where you can get 2 years of protection for 5 computers for $239.

The bottom line is that you need to look closer at your computer security, and now isn’t the time to play cheap. It cost all eight of the people I helped at least $180 on top of the $129 that they paid AT&T Support Plus, which they are fighting to have refunded.

You can save about $120 buy protecting yourself beforehand, and save yourself hours on the telephone with technical support, and eliminate the hassle of trying to backup your files ten minutes before the technician stops by. Remember this: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.