Press Release: Protelligent Offers Development Fincancing

Development financing now available!
Protelligent is proud to announce the procurement of extremely competitive and flexible financing options for customers. Protelligent now offers Fair Market Value and $1 Buy-Out leasing in varying terms on the following:

1. Application development.
2. Hardware and software purchases.
3. Lines of credit.

With the new financing options, clients will never again have to put their business’s progression on hold due to fear of up-front IT costs. Protelligent’s partner will work directly with clients to obtain the terms desired. The process takes a mere 10 minutes and involves only a one-page application.

Press Release: Protelligent Celebrates 5th Anniversary

July 10th, 2007
Lake Elsinore, CA

Protelligent eagerly celebrated the 5^th year of its incorporation today at Lake Elsinore, California.

Clients, family, and friends were present to celebrate the milestone via wakeboarding, wake surfing, jet skiing, and a catered lunch.

Several guests won raffle prizes including tickets to local amusement parks, dinner and a movie, a portable hard drive, and an Ipod nano.

Founded in 2002, Protelligent, Inc., a California corporation, is a full service IT engineering and development firm that specializes in best-of-breed technologies. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Cisco Systems Partner, Protelligent offers professional services, managed security services, application development, web design, and ASP hosting services.

For further information regarding the extensive services offered by Protelligent, please call (949) 221-8900 or email pr@protelligent.net.

Windows Worm Uses BitTorrent to Propagate

Windows Worm Uses BitTorrent to Propagate
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A worm that infects Windows XP and, possibly, Vista is said to spread itself over IM applications, like AIM and Windows Live Messenger, and… BitTorrent. Security research firm Sophos says the worm uses “a social engineering scheme” to get people to unknowingly infect their computers with it.

It’s controlled by a remote user over IRC, and is capable of sending itself via AIM and MSN, storing itself as a file called IMG009.jpg-www.imagehosting.com inside a zip file called C:RECYCLERmyphoto.zip, and then sending this zip with a message that promises pictures, written in the same language as the infected computer. This sort of social engineering tries to maximize the chance that recipients will believe it to be legitimate and open the attachment, though this is shot in the foot somewhat by the fact that many of the the phrases have been cut off abruptly.

I was alarmed when I read this, as you should be. We all use instant messaging to some extent. Some at the office, some at home...some both. Thankfully, the computers at work are all protected by our own in-house managed security and monitoring system. Sadly, my computer at home is not.

Which leads me to ponder: how many offices are as ill-protected as my home computer? I shudder at the thought of my C-Drive being corrupted, and I don't have much of significance on it. What if that drive had valuable business data?

It's horrible to think that somewhere, one coworker just send a virus to another because of idle cubicle-to-cubicle chatter via IMs. Sadly, that is probably the case.

I'm going to go run a virus check on my computer while wishing my computer was protected as well as my computer at work. What about you?

Press Release: Protelligent Announces Secure Computing Silver Partnership

Irvine, CA

Protelligent proudly announces its new status as a Secure Computing Silver Partner.

The partnership further enables Protelligent to provide unparalleled and cost-effective security solutions by merging the exceptional security software of Secure Computing with the custom-tailored and dependable support of Protelligent.

As a Secure Computing Silver Partner, Protelligent will have access to the most cutting-edge security tools, thus establishing Protelligent’s security services as the most comprehensive, current, and dependable solutions available to small and medium-sized businesses.

Protelligent, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Partner and Cisco Systems Partner, offers professional services, managed security services, application development, web design, and ASP hosting services. Secure Computing, a publicly traded company, is a global leader in enterprise gateway security solutions.

For further information regarding the benefits of this partnership, please call (949) 221-8900 or email pr@protelligent.net.

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Cubicity defined.

Some of you may have wafting thoughts of cubes or cubicles. Others may dream of a small city in Cuba or duplicity applied to squares. In many respects, all of these notions are equally accurate and incorrect.

What is cubicity, then?

Businesses strive for structure.
People strive for individualism.
Embrace both, and you have cubicity.

Definitions: precisely vague at their best.

Welcome!