Salary:£55000-£65000

Our client, a true global leader within the green energy industry, is looking for a Life Cycle Assessment Specialist to join their Corporate Sustainability team.

Working alongside sustainability colleagues as well as the R&D team, the successful candidate will develop, implement and continuously follow up on strategic LCA initiatives and projects. Key responsibilities will include, but not be restricted to:

• Developing and taking the lead on implementing a Life Cycle Assessment approach.
• Performing LCA on new and future products
• Continuously develop and improve the company’s LCA procedures and methods
• Following up and communicating specific activities concerning life cycle perspectives
• Developing and ensuring strong follow-up on LCA aspects and targets

Essential requirements:

• Proven experience in Life Cycle Assessment on complex products
• Good project management skills
• Strong communication skills – with the ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders
• A relevant environmental or engineering degree

This position is based in Denmark and fluency in English is required. Our client will support on relocation if required.

We thank all applicants who respond, but only those short listed will be contacted.

To apply for this position please email your CV to apply@acre-resources.com quoting job reference SF2989





PC-cillin 2006 is Trend Micro's latest entry into the Internet Security Suite arena. There are obviously a wide range of products playing in this space, and while PC-cillin doesn't have the name recognition of McAfee or Symantec (a.k.a. Norton) it proves to be a solid product with some unique features.
Like many people I have been a long-time Symantec/Norton user. My opinion has always been that while its tools can be a bit of a pain at times, Norton always has had the reputation of providing maximum protection--and that's what we really buy these products for, right? I have become increasingly unhappy with the performance and "invasiveness" of the last few Symantec versions, however, and when I bought a new Dell PC this year I decided to give the McAfee product that came pre-installed a shot. I was pretty happy with the performance of McAfee for the three-month trial period. It was less invasive than Symantec and seemed to be doing all of its assigned jobs.
A few days after the trial period ended I got a message saying that the virus definitions were out of date. I obviously couldn't update the definitions without paying for a new subscription, but even worse, McAfee had disabled virus scanning altogether! I was now held hostage to purchasing a subscription to have any protection at all. Although I liked the product I don't like being pushed around by software vendors. So, I decided it was time to find a new security product.
PC-cillin had started to show up in recent direct comparisons to Symantec and McAfee and was getting reasonable reviews, so I decided to give it a try. One of the things that interested me was the reputation that it had for being very fast and very non-intrusive. The initial copy that I got was the 2005 version. My initial impression after install was that this was a pretty unpolished product. The user interface looked low-tech and a bit archaic. Of course, that isn't what makes a virus scanning and security application a success, and after using the product for a few weeks I was very impressed with the performance. Virus scans were much faster than anything that I had ever seen from the other products, and the other functions stayed quietly in the background, presumably doing their job. A few weeks after installing the 2005 version I received the 2006 update. That is the version that I will describe here.
Rather than doing an upgrade I did a complete uninstall of the old version and installed the new one from scratch. My first impression was that the user interface had been completely redone and was now up to current standards. While not as polished in all areas as the Symantec and McAfee products, PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 is perfectly usable and gets the job done.


After getting the new version installed my first action was to do a full scan. Much to my disappointment, the time was much slower than the old version. While I didn't do any measurements it appeared to be more along the lines of the competing products as opposed to the much faster speed that PC-cillin has been known for.
When I explored the virus scan settings I found a feature called Turbo Scan. This was apparently in the older version of the product as well, but perhaps was on by default previously because after turning it on in the new version scan times improved significantly. This feature apparently bypasses files that have already been scanned; presumably it is able to tell if a file has been changed without completely scanning it and therefore saves a lot of time. There are also all of the usual controls for virus scanning and scheduling.

Note the Turbo Scan setting

The real-time virus protection also provides a good level of control and doesn't take up any noticeable overhead. The same is true for e-mail virus scanning.


The personal firewall was the next feature I enabled. At first it appeared to work pretty well. There are preconfigured profiles for different network connection types, including direct connection, wireless, home network, and office network, each intended to have appropriate security controls for their purpose. I went with the direct connection profile at first and it seemed to work fine. The firewall is bi-directional and is configured for common applications for outgoing traffic. When a new application is encountered that is attempting to access the Internet, a simple dialog box is presented that allows the user to permit or block the traffic. In the past I have used Zone Alarm in addition to the firewall from whatever security product I had installed specifically for its excellent ability to deal with outgoing traffic. I have not reinstalled Zone Alarm on this PC and PC-cillin seems to be doing a fine job in its place.


The firewall provides the ability to fine tune the built-in profiles and create new ones. As it turned out this became necessary because a few weeks after I started using PC-cillin I had problem accessing the Internet. At first I thought I was having a problem with either my router or cable modem, but then discovered that my other PCs were connecting just fine. After some trial and error I figured out that the PC-cillin firewall was blocking all traffic. I played around with the settings and was able to get it working again, but ultimately that only way I fully solved the issue was to create a new firewall profile and allow it to relearn the configuration from scratch. Switching back to the original direct connection default profile kills my connection. One strike, but let's go on.

Windows Security  - How Secure is Your Computer?


Windows Security
a) Is your pc secure?
b) How much security does your pc have?
c) Not sure?
d) How can you make your pc more Secure?

When you break down an operating system and you look at how many possible window security risks there are it can be quite frightening, there are about six different types.
for example we have

See more of our Windows Security articles below

1. Operating System (security issues)
2. File System Type
3. User Security
4. Spyware
5. Virus's
6. Open Ports

Over the past four years it has sadly become more and more crucial to keep on top of your window security ,

if it's not other people trying to get onto your pc or rather hack onto your pc it's virus's , windows security damaging work files, emailing people or trashing your operating system, if it's not virus's " what is a computer virus " it's windows spyware which is the latest curse to affect your pc, be sure to look at our section.

Everything put together here will give your pc high security.

1. The operating system, regardless of whether you use Windows XP, 2000 NT or Macintosh OSX,
you have to make sure your pc has the latest critical updates installed; they are called critical updates for one reason.
They enhance the windows security of your pc greatly
If your pc has not got auto update installed,
To manually update your pc with the latest system updates you just need to go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ or if you use internet explorer go to the tools menu and select windows update.

If you would like to auto enable windows security updates , this is the best Some of the updates are pretty big.
If you have a slow connection it may take a while, but today it's just not worth the risk of not updating.

As soon as a security flaw is found in an operating system it now only takes someone around 14 days to exploit this, and the gap between the flaw notice and exploitation is getting smaller.

2. File system type, there are really only two file system types we are concerned with here, the chances are you are either using FAT32 or NTFS,
In a nutshell unless you really have a reason not to you should be using NTFS it's far more secure than FAT32, it also has more advantages that can be found here.
You can only use NTFS on windows XP, 2000, NT4 operating systems, to learn how to convert your system to NTFS or for more info on file systems checkout find out more here ..

3. User or windows Security, this is a grey area for a lot of people,
You login to your pc, but do you have to type a password ? Is the guest account enabled ?, basically if the guest account is enabled, anyone can connect to your pc, so here's what we need to do.

Windows XP, go to the start menu, control panels, administrative tools, computer management, you will see a tab called Local users and Groups, expand this tab by clicking on it's + Select users, you will now see all the machine's user account, from here,

If you need to give yourself a password, right click on the name of the user, that you use to login, if you don't login as any user, right click on the account labelled Administrator, select the Set Password field, and put in a password and type it again to confirm,

Please make sure you use a password that is easy for you to remember, or now with your enhanced window security you will lock yourself out of your own pc.

Ok now that you've given yourself a password, from the users tab look for the Guest account, we need to disable this,
If it's already disabled you will see it has a red circle with a white X inside it, if not though,
Right click on this and select properties, click to put a tick in the field Account Is Disabled,

you've now secured your pc user accounts.

4. Windows AntiSpyware , Spyware is the newest and in a lot of respects it can be the biggest windows security risk on your pc,
For more info on spyware click here. for more info on spyware click here. There are thankfully a lot of Windows Antispyware products on the market, also some of the best ones are free,

The two that I use and install on clients computers are Google Anti Spyware or Spybot Search and Destroy,
Both are very thorough and you'd be surprised how much spyware your pc picks up when your on-line.

5. Virus's , our old friend the computer virus, seems like they have been around forever these days( what is a computer virus )
There are absolutely loads of Antivirus Products on the market, in my experience there does not seem to be a great deal of difference between most of the major ones, I have used AVG, PC Cillin (now called Trend) Norton, Mcafee, Panda, Sophos,

I would recommend you find one that you are happy with, have a look on the sites and see which ones you can download on a trial basis,

some people recommend one and others recommend another, but all of these are all good anti virus products.

6. Open Ports, This is yet another way for people to get onto your pc
This is where a good firewall comes in, a firewall creates a barrier between your pc and the internet, it monitors traffic coming into and from your pc,
It will block any suspicious activity and allow all other.
There are a lot of firewall products on the market of course, XP even has a windows security firewall built in, it's ok,
But it is still not as good as most of the ones commercially available, but in effect they usually offer the same amount of protection.
Of all the ones I've used, Windows, Norton, Panda, Sygate, Mcafee, Outpost,

All of them are very good, but for ease of use I've stuck with Mcafee, it's easy to install and configure, and if you need to use internet connection sharing it's a blessing that it sorts out everything for you,

you can download demos of most of the firewall packages above, so I'd recommend you try for yourself, otherwise Mcafee.

As you can see Window security is quite a large subject,

I've tried to make it as easy as possible, so hopefully you'll now have an idea of how to protect your pc properly, using all of the windows security info listed above.

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