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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