Newsletter roundup

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

A couple of interesting things seen in newsletters today. First there’s today’s Spyware Info Weekly which talks about accusations of reverse engineering and fraud among different anti-spyware apps. Interesting stuff, I think we’d all do well to make sure we aren’t using a fake spyware killer.

Then, from today’s LangaList comes a pointer to Fred’s InformationWeek column about white-box, or generic, PC’s as compared to name brand PC’s. Good stuff.

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