Skype subscribers are saying that one fresh malicious campaign is contacting their accounts regarding a particular software update they must install on their PCs, thus published hideyourselfonline.com in news on March 14, 2011.
Actually, Skype users are told through a voice call that their PCs have a virus that impacts Windows XP, Vista and 7. For taking down a patch they should visit www.sosgt.com. But, while the call has been circulating in various versions all of them direct users for visiting one particular website, which upon accessing generates scareware windows and the resultant coercion to users into buying protection software that's really not needed.
States Krebs a security researcher, according to complaints appearing on Skype.com a forum for Skype users, there seems to be numerous others as well who are getting fake security calls like this one. According to him, incase users go to the said website, it instantly projects a "scamscan" pop-up on their browsers that tricks them into believing that their systems are badly infected and that they must be cleansed. Infosecurity-magazine.com reported this on March 14, 2011.
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