It just reveals that skype, like any other app you allow to use the internet, is not secure. It reveals a fatal security problem of skype: A new computer virus/worm/trojan seems to make use of the adress book of skype. That's the new bit. Everything else is well known. We've seen this especially with worms that used to read the microsoft adressbook that is used most times with outlook. Where at the other hand outlooks vulnerabilities were used to distribute the virus. So this time it's skype. It usually depends on the popularity of an application.
What is a RootKit?
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