elamb » skype http://elamb.org information system security, risk management, scam research Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 IMPERSONATION (GENERAL JOHN MCHUGH) http://elamb.org/impersonation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=impersonation http://elamb.org/impersonation/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:56:00 +0000 elamb
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http://elamb.org/?p=2287 some one is using this name on skype and yahoo mail. GENERAL JOHN MCHUGH.
generaljohnm@yahoo.com, skype ID is general John McHugh. DO something to stop them.

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http://elamb.org/?p=315 Continue reading →]]> Another attempt to hijack systems with bait software.  P2P file share programs has lots of these bastards running around (the older free ones anyway).  I'll look into this and put together a manual on how to remove it… gotta find the bad Skype first.

The Trojan horse, a variant of IRCbot, arrives in an e-mail purporting to be an update to Skype, the popular Internet telephony application. Once opened the malicious software displays a phony installation error message. It then blocks access to security updates and installs a back door on computers, MessageLabs said in a statement.

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