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...MORE "I LOVE YOU" This week Microsoft is offering a download that will update Microsoft Outlook Express, its popular e-mail software, to guard against more viruses like the Love Bug. The upgraded Outlook will no longer accept attachments that contain executable code, like the bug's, and it will warn you if another program on your computer tries to rummage through your address book. Check www.microsoft.com for the upgrade. Thanks, Bill...
...real threat to that business model, however, is client-to-client-based programs like Napster, Gnutella and Freenet that make searching and swapping MP3 music files quick and painless. Suddenly Metallica and Elektra no longer control the quantity and destiny of their songs. It costs zip to download Metallica's And Justice for All via Napster. If you're selling CDs, it's hard to build a business around that price point...
...genome, showing where along its long spirals of DNA the genes are located--65,000 of them with reasonable confidence, an additional 40,000 tagged more tentatively. For $10,000 a year, subscribers to DoubleTwist's website can read portions of the map; for $650,000 they can download the whole thing. And while the information is less detailed and thus less useful than what the gene sequencers will ultimately provide, DoubleTwist managed to get there first...
...part of a so-called local area network, or lan. The Love Bug would leap that barrier like some hyperactive flea. And there's more. If you were surfing with Internet Explorer, it would reset your home page to a website in the Philippines, from which it would download a second virus--this one designed to round up all those treasured passwords on your hard drive and ship them off to an e-mail address, also in the Philippines. Fortunately, that contaminated site was shut down early Thursday morning once virus hunters spotted...
...with the proper electron (petrochemical-sunset-haired Fay Masterson), is the first medium-length, Hollywood-style movie made uniquely for the Internet. Just log on to sightsound.com as the Web faithful did at 12:01 a.m., Friday, when Quantum popped online. Pay $3.95 to rent or $5.95 to buy. Download for four minutes--or many hours, but we'll get to that later--and the future is yours...