Skype worm turned to be a virus
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It’s quite the same thing for non-tech people, but Skype wants to play fair with its users. It’s not a worm, it’s a Trojan Horse which is hitting the VoIP client. “We we learned that the attack was not a worm and made very minimal use of Skype”.
The security team adds Skype is totally neutral in this case. Its implication on the spread of the virus is comparable to illegal file-sharing on Kazaa platform, created by Zennstrom and Friis. In other words, the virus “uses Skype to propagate itself, it makes legal use of our APIs to simply send a web link (URL) to another user — that is the full extent of the use of Skype.”
It could be nothing but here’s a new form of virus spread, use Skype as a vessel for a real-time and global infection of computers.
Dec 21, 2006 | By Nuno
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