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To: J Fieb who wrote (25309)	3/27/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

To all - WSJ article on a computer virus (via e-mail) out there right now. March 27, 1999 E-Mail Virus Spreads on Internet, Could Tie Up Traffic if Unstopped By MARK BOSLET Dow Jones Newswires PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A computer virus that spread quickly across the Internet on Friday afternoon shut down e-mail servers at some companies and overloaded others with infected e-mail, industry executives said. Some executives fear the virus, which is dubbed Melissa and which preys on Microsoft Corp.'s Word software, could tie up traffic on the Internet on Monday if it is unstopped. The virus enters a computer in an e-mail message labeled "Important Message From." The message also includes the apparent sender's name. Melissa replicates itself when a computer user opens the e-mail and a Word-based attachment it contains. Once open and active, the virus sends infected e-mail to 50 new recipients it finds in the computer owner's address book. The virus shut down e-mail servers at Microsoft late Friday and hampered operations at other companies, such as Lucent Technologies Inc. said Eric Allman, chief technology officer at Send Mail Inc. Send Mail makes e-mail routing software used widely on the Internet. Representatives from Microsoft and Lucent could not be reached for comment. The body of the infected e-mail document reads: "Here's the document you asked for. Don't show it to anyone else." Mr. Allman said Send Mail came up with a program to prevent the virus' spread. It simply identifies an e-mail with the label "Important Message From" and returns it to the sender. The program is available for download from the Send Mail website. "Monday could be seriously painful for the Internet" if lots of users open and read e-mail messages infected with Melissa, Mr. Allman said. Copyright © 1999 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

To: J Fieb who wrote (25309)	3/27/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

JF - Cinecomm background at: exchange2000.com In addition it should be noted that Qualcomm has several patents in the area of video compression and one is a very early patent that is heavily reference by later patents in the area. This implies that it is a key patent and that they have a fair amount of expertise in it. The technique described in the patent is similar to the technique used in MPEG (Frame is broken up into blocks which are transformed using a DCT. High frequency stuff is not sent. Off the top of my head, if I remember correctly it also describes a basic method for interframe compression, but of that I am less sure.) Clark PS Long time no see. Haven't been in CUBE in a long long time. PPS A while ago I asked on the CUBE thread if anyone knew how processing intensive MPEG decompression and compression was. How many transistors does a decompression chip have? A compression chip? Do you know?