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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. Re:Is there any chance this is related to outage? by jrl · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or perhaps he got it from that nice young 16 year old he's been chatting with from the office.

  2. Re:Skype itself is blameless by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can scream all you like, happy or not.
    Lunix is insecure be design.
    Root is a design fault.
    That's why it got removed in the next version.

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter