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Any of you who use Skype and allow people to contact you or join the messenger chat who are not on your contact list, beware.
There is a virus doing the rounds and it will disable any updates to your antivirus, plus send itself to everyone on your Skype contacts list.
_http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/255518
_http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=79183
So as an interim measure and until all antivirus software is updated to spot it, don't allow contact from people who are not on your contacts list and don't click on any links in messages unless you have confirmed with the sender that he/she has sent it to you.
There is a virus doing the rounds and it will disable any updates to your antivirus, plus send itself to everyone on your Skype contacts list.
Sep 12, 2007 04:30 AM
EBay Inc.'s Skype Internet phone service, which broke down for two days last month, said a virus that sends a fake chat message may infect customers' computers.
The "w32/Ramex.A" virus is affecting users of Skype for Windows, Skype said. Customers with infected computers may send a chat message to other subscribers asking them to click on a link that will infect their computers.
Skype, with more than 196 million subscribers in July, has asked anti-virus software companies to update their protection systems to stop the spread of the virus. The alert follows an August software glitch that left many subscribers without Internet phone service for two days.
_http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/255518
_http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=79183
So as an interim measure and until all antivirus software is updated to spot it, don't allow contact from people who are not on your contacts list and don't click on any links in messages unless you have confirmed with the sender that he/she has sent it to you.
f you have a request from someone on your contact list to view a web-page or download something, confirm that it WAS they who sent it... there is a skype virus spreading very fast... be aware, copy this text and tell your contacts!