Skype Looks to be in the Clear
Source: www.voip-news.com
Earier in the week, there was a lot of talk about a supposed worm working its way into users’ computers, and the culprit appeared to be people who were using Skype’s Chat feature. Now the threat has been recharacterized as a Trojan horse, instead of a worm.
Websense issued an advisory when the news first appeared, warning people to be careful of requests to download a sp.exe file. Whether or not a threat still exists, you should always be careful when downloading files irregardless.
“After discussions with the very helpful Skype security team, the behavior of this Trojan using the Skype API (application programming interface) is as per the specifications of the API,” Websense stated in its revised advisory. “The end user who is running Skype does get notified that a program is attempting to access it and must acknowledge it … there is no vulnerability in Skype at this time that has been uncovered.”
Websense’s updated advisory can be found here.
