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[ sellsius° real estate blog] Mashable posted a warning that users of Skype may be solicited to download a file called “sp.exe.” DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS FILE. It’s a password stealing trojan that also spreads to your buddy list.

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F-secure.com[F-secure.com] F-Secure : News from the Lab: Updated to add: Sedo responds. Jeremiah Johnston, Sedo's general counsel, says his company wants to "balance the rights of all users" and added that at times, trademark owners "harass a lot of legitimate domain owners." Full article in here.

Searchsecurity.techtarget.comhttp://searchsecurity.techtarget.com [Searchsecurity.techtarget.com] Skype Trojan: Much ado about nothing?: "Since I have about 300 friends on Skype, it was pretty likely that I'd be sent the file," he wrote. "In fact, the dialog to download sp.exe started to arrive about a week ago." But he added that users must manually click a button to get infected, and that tech savvy users would know better.

[Share.skype.com] vskype update: unwanted messages warning - Skype Blogs: Also, you can ask users to report problems directly to http://forums.vskype.com. We have had an overwhelming number of downloads over the past three days - in fact, vSkype downloads will surpass 200K by midnight. (which doesn’t count the users who have shared our setup program file via Skype) I’m not sure what the download rate is for other plug-ins, but if it is appreciably lower, than this may help explain the increased support requests.

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