PSA: Skype IM Virus - Windows

[CandyCranium]

It downloads a Link that you open get a EXE (From a Rar folder) or something. (I wasn't paying attention) Then it give you 2 trojans...

Oh.

 

[Erisyuka]

And I wouldn't put the virus link up.

^agreed. I clicked on it, but that is because I wanted to know what exactly this was.

 

[G33ke]

And this is exactly why I don't click any links from anyone that can hide anything malicious behind them, (Tinyurl, as an example.) and why I don't click links to websites I'm not familiar with unless I know I can trust it for sure. I don't care who they are, I don't even care if I know it was them that sent it, I'm not going to take a hit for it if they didn't realize at first it was Virus-ridden. I'm really, really careful about this stuff personally. When someone asks me why I refuse to click a link, that's the answer they'll get. There is a reason I've never gotten a virus before. (You don't want to see me when I'm doing research into something like a Minecraft mod before installing, either. )

 

[RC_4777]

And this is exactly why I don't click any links from anyone that can hide anything malicious behind them, (Tinyurl, as an example.) and why I don't click links to websites I'm not familiar with unless I know I can trust it for sure. I don't care who they are, I don't even care if I know it was them that sent it, I'm not going to take a hit for it if they didn't realize at first it was Virus-ridden. I'm really, really careful about this stuff personally. When someone asks me why I refuse to click a link, that's the answer they'll get. There is a reason I've never gotten a virus before. (You don't want to see me when I'm doing research into something like a Minecraft mod before installing, either. )

That's how I am. Ever since I accidentally got a virus as a child saving a picture of a pokemon so I could print it later (it wasn't anything especially bad, we handled it before it could do anything), I always make sure to do my research before I download or click stuff.

 

[Mwinkl3sMinecraft]

DUDE. EVERY. SIGNLE. SOLITARY. PERSON. SENT. ME. THAT. ON. SKYPE. Dude I kept clicking it, did I get it?

 

[The Arena Master]

Dude I kept clicking it, did I get it?

Your computer = toast

 

[Mwinkl3sMinecraft]

Your computer = toast

No re.

 

[OnlyMathias]

DUDE. EVERY. SIGNLE. SOLITARY. PERSON. SENT. ME. THAT. ON. SKYPE. Dude I kept clicking it, did I get it?

What did you do with the Received File?

 

[Mwinkl3sMinecraft]

What did you do with the Received File?

I couldn't open the file, as a matter a fact it didn't let me.

 

[OnlyMathias]

I couldn't open the file, as a matter a fact it didn't let me.

Well Sir then you didn't receive that Virus.

 

[illumina1337]

Lol this happened to me a year ago. just fixed in two seconds.

 

[Mwinkl3sMinecraft]

Well Sir then you didn't receive that Virus.

Happy face. I'm just dumb, I was almost certain that was the reply id've gotten.