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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. Obligatory joke by Torodung · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Skype, Trojans wear you!

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    Toro

  2. Re:Software diversity is a good thing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    closed or open source doesn't matter in this case. you're just a lemming astroturfer. and probably not even smart enough to get paid for it.