Trojan Emails Aim to Skype Users
Filed in: Security — October 21st, 2005
Skype users, do not believe any Skype update sending via email attachment.
OCTOBER 19, 2005 – A malicious Trojan horse is circulating as an e-mail attachment and purports to be the newest release of Skype Technologies SA ’s Internet telephone software.
The e-mail, claiming to contain Version 1.4 of Skype’s VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software client, contains a variant of the IRCbot Trojan horse, according to MessageLabs Ltd., which issued a warning earlier this week after detecting and blocking hundreds of copies of the new variant.
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