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Skype Worm Infects Windows PCs

Posted by kdawson on from the footsteps-of-msn-and-yahoo dept.

walterbays writes with news of a worm spreading to Windows PCs through Skype's IM. The worm is variously called Ramex.a and Pykspa.d. A poster on a Skype forum explains how to remove it. "After hijacking contacts from an infected machine's Skype software, it sends messages to those people that include a live link. Recipients who blithely click on the URL — which poses as a JPG image but is actually a download to a file with the .scr extension — wind up infected."

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  1. Poor Skype... by brouski · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hasn't been the best two months for them, has it?

    Interesting that Microsoft is, yet again, directly or indirectly, responsible for their misfortune.

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