Sunday, March 25, 2007

Malicious Skype trojans

A friend of ours has been warning of the risks of SPIT, SPam over Internet Telephony, for a couple of years now so seeing the news of the latest Skype trojan doing the rounds caught my attention.

The interesting things about this little nasty uses the Skype contact list to spread. Which means our initial advice to restricting Skype chats to contacts won't do too much. It comes back to running the system as a limited user with an up to date virus checker.

Of course, not clicking on anything that says "click here" is a good idea too.

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