Friday, October 19, 2012

The Public Image of Anonymous

Nutpick:
AedanP
Occasional Visitor
Re: My skype sends messages saying "lol is this your new profile pic."


I've had this virus and i've found out how to get rid off it.

For Windows 7/Vista:

Go to the start menu and search for %appdata% then press enter. At the bottom of that folder there will be files which has random numbers and a skype thing. Delete all of them. If you can't delete one of them open up task manager. ( ctrl + shift + escape) Then go to processes. Then at the top of the list there should be a file with the same name. Delete that file. Now there should be no virus.
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Wlille
Occasional Visitor
Re: My skype sends messages saying "lol is this your new profile pic."


This is a virus sent out by The Hacker group Anonymous. They have hacked The Swedish Governments homepage etc...
Next commenter after that corrects (?) Wlille, but I don't think you're gonna be masters of illegal computer wizardry without scaring the non-masters. (And you know, decades along from my first fiddlings with computers, people growing up with them aren't much good at them.)

More flailing about from Skype users here.

4 comments:

mikey said...

Skype still a necessary evil for international VOIP, but I switched to Google two years ago. Better, more reliable connections and browser-based - no standalone application to manage....

Substance McGravitas said...

Yes, much simpler to use your browser. Lately Google is my phone, but I'm sure they're going to start charging for that.

mikey said...

Nah, I doubt it. Not their model. Attract you as a user, capture your information, make you look at 'targeted' ads, that's what they're about. I can't imagine they could generate enough revenue making you pay for VOIP services that are available free in lots of places to make it worth their while...

Substance McGravitas said...

I dunno about that. The connection to existing land lines is why I use it, and Skype seems to be able to charge where that's required. Just seems natural.