<div>Hello All, </div><div><br></div><div>I did receive the link to in my Skype and I asked about it.</div><div><br></div>I will conduct more research into the malware. There is a software probably that could have been installed which sniffs open IMs and auto sends link.<div><br></div><div>Check, if there are unknown programs in your program manager, and delete them.</div><div><br></div><div>Secondly, update your antivirus program and do a full system scan. </div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes it even eats up files, and they fail to open with their respective programs. </div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Saturday, October 29, 2016, Sébastien Bachollet <<a href="mailto:sebastien@bachollet.com">sebastien@bachollet.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><div><div>Hello all,</div><div>Good idea.</div><div>Yes I did received this link from the Skype account of Maureen.</div><div>It will be useful to explain how to avoid it and maybe also what to do if it is to late and you already click on the link?</div><div>All the best</div><div>SeB</div><div><br></div><div><div><font color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font face="Calibri">Sébastien Bachollet</font></font></div><div><font color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font face="Calibri">+33 6 07 66 89 33</font></font></div><div>Blog: <a href="http://sebastien.bachollet.fr" target="_blank">http://sebastien.<wbr>bachollet.fr</a>/</div><div>Mail: <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri">Sébastien Bachollet <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sebastien@bachollet.com');" target="_blank">sebastien@bachollet.com</a>></span></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:left;color:black;BORDER-BOTTOM:medium none;BORDER-LEFT:medium none;PADDING-BOTTOM:0in;PADDING-LEFT:0in;PADDING-RIGHT:0in;BORDER-TOP:#b5c4df 1pt solid;BORDER-RIGHT:medium none;PADDING-TOP:3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">De : </span> <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ttf-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org');" target="_blank">ttf-bounces@atlarge-lists.<wbr>icann.org</a>> on behalf of Satish Babu <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sbabu@ieee.org');" target="_blank">sbabu@ieee.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date : </span> samedi 29 octobre 2016 17:03<br><span style="font-weight:bold">À : </span> Dev Anand Teelucksingh <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','admin@ttcsweb.org');" target="_blank">admin@ttcsweb.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc : </span> "<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org');" target="_blank">ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org');" target="_blank">ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet : </span> [technology taskforce] Skype Virus: Need for an Advisory<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#b5c4df 5 solid;PADDING:0 0 0 5;MARGIN:0 0 0 5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Dev and friends<br></div>I had a request from Maureen on a Skype-based malware that sent a spam link to her entire contact list...a very embarrassing situation...<br><br>It appears to be the one referred to here:<br><a href="https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2015/09/steer-clear-of-this-skype-spam/" target="_blank">https://blog.malwarebytes.com/<wbr>cybercrime/2015/09/steer-<wbr>clear-of-this-skype-spam/</a><br><br>The actual spam message sent by the malware is as follows (with the recipient's name in the end):<br><br><a href="http://www.baidu.com/link?url=re04XeZ54BcvMs5I6_h3T8T9xfWdghVSpFxRxyoq3zW#jqybyqoc=pentaceros" target="_blank">http://www.baidu.com/link?url=<wbr>re04XeZ54BcvMs5I6_<wbr>h3T8T9xfWdghVSpFxRxyoq3zW#<wbr>jqybyqoc=pentaceros</a><br><br></div>Would it be possible for TTF (once the Hyderabad rush is over), to send out an Advisory for At-Large on how to avoid this malware ?<br><br><br><br><br><br></div>satish<br><br><div><div><br></div></div></div>
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