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Accounting firms have probably always been involved in corporate deals but building a presence has taken time, according to Accountancy Age. The Toshiba deal for British Nuclear Fuels plc is currently the largest deal involving any accounting firm, at $5.4 billion.

Tim Stone was a consultation partner in the Toshiba deal. He said in Accountancy Age, "We always had the ability to lead deals of this size, but it was just a case of a business realising what we can do. After this deal we see ourselves working on more strategically important deals." He believes that this deal establishes KPMG as a major player in future deals.

Other major accounting firms, including Ernst & Young and Deloitte, have worked smaller deals.

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Virus attacks happen. When they do it is important that all the computers be scanned as quickly as possible to prevent, or at least limit, the effects of possible infection.

A debate has been raging for some time in information technology circles regarding the effect of fragmented files on virus scanning. In a bid to end the controversy, Diskeeper Corporation recently conducted a study on the effects of disk fragmentation on virus scan time. The top four anti-virus software packages were tested and results indicate that regular defragmenting increases the speed at which virus scanning is completed by a minimum of 23 percent. Depending on the software configuration and anti-virus software being used, improvements of more than 61 percent may be seen. In practical terms, this means adding between 17 and 58 minutes of productive time to days when running virus scans.

A recently published white paper, "Antivirus Software and Disk Defragmentation" from Diskeeper Corporation, explores the effects of regular defragmentation on virus scanning.

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