Over the past few years skype has become as big of a part of the Saigen experience as, well the site and RP itself! Recently a huge Skype trojan has taken place and planted itself on thousands of computers. It has come to my attention that a few members of Saigen have been infected.
This Virus starts with the name "Skype_Img" and has 4-03 in the title. People infected automatically message their contacts list every twenty minutes with a link to this saying "this is my favorite pic of you lol
I had just woken up, and curiously I gave it a click. Luckily- our virus designers for some reason zipped the virus, so I never got to the stage of clicking img.exe. I saw the .exe and the red flag rose.
However, you may not be as lucky or your friend who's spamming you. HOPEFULLY, this message reached you first, if not follow the steps below.
Step One
- Please change your Skype password @ https://login.skype.com/account/password-reset-request from a safe computer.
- In Skype go to Tools->Options->Advanced Settings.
- Click 'Manage Other Programs access to Skype'
- Remove anything that looks malicious or unknown
- Download Malware Bytes @ http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/ and run a series of scans.
- Run MBAM and use the FileASSASSIN tool to delete the all exe file found under AppData directory
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming
- Do a final scan for peace of mind @ http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/
