Things of interest…

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

RealPlayer 10 has been released. Now, I have been successful in keeping RealOne off our network here at work, by using the language of our anti-spyware policy, since RealOne did a whole lot of tracking, advertising and other sneaky things. After reading this though, I might have to at least give version 10 and their TOS a look before deciding whether to lift the ban for the new version.

In other news:

You are your references

Block out the noise and listen to yourself

You wouldn’t believe the numbers of Netsky emails that have been quarantined this week. For a small office to get hundreds of them in a week, it must be wreaking some serious havoc out there! Yes, apparently it is!

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