воскресенье, 7 октября 2012 г.

I am being hacked on skype! How to fix?

hey, is this your skype profile pic?

This question and the notice with the suggestion to download some suspicious file can be received from your friends or colleagues via Skype. Do not hurry up to answer it.

It is not a simple question and is not sent by your friends. It is sent by cyber criminals. They invented a new way how to infect PCs of random users. The trick of this virus is in it that such malicious link may come as a message from a person in the list of Skype contacts, so users actively hit it. The browser then offers to save the zip archive into some particular destination on the computer, and then, upon execution, the malware will be implanted onto the PC. When some actually opens this infected archive and the file the entire Skype profile of this user becomes infected, thus beginning to massively send similar notifications to other users in the list of contacts. It is a so-called domino effect.

Thus, when clicking the link the archive is being downloaded with some file that has the random name, such as “skype**** “. Even after reinstalling Skype the spam links continue to be spread. It is also known that the malicious program may copy the contacts. The aim of this post is to prevent the users from this Skype virus infection. So do not click unknown links even if they are sent from your friends.

HOW TO FIX

To stop this mess you are recommended to perform the next steps: open skype ->go to tools-> options ->advanced ->allow other programs access to skype. Now when you click that there should be 3 programs remove them all from the list. Not less important this you need to do is to download the reputable anti-virus, like GridinSoft Trojan Killer and launch the full scan. Make sure to update virus database before using it.

SOURCE: http://remove-trojans.com/i-am-being-hacked-on-skype-how-to-fix/

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