Skype spam

[AtW]

Anybody else affected? Suddenly my contacts were spammed with some cnn.com link that is a redirect to some spammy site

Had to change my password from squirrel to something a bit more complicated to guess.

[MrMarkyMark]

Anybody else affected? Suddenly my contacts were spammed with some cnn.com link that is a redirect to some spammy site

Was this shortly after you were browsing some of your, more, "specialist" sites?

[BigRed]

I get lots of invites from Blossom and Loveley Lady etc. which I can't seem to get rid of. I thought I'd uninstalled it but I still get the notifications.

[AtW]

I get lots of invites from Blossom and Loveley Lady etc. which I can't seem to get rid of. I thought I'd uninstalled it but I still get the notifications.

No, I am talking about your contacts getting spam links from YOUR account suddenly, looks like happening on global scale right now - some kind hole in Skype system rather than malware on PC.

[oracleslave]

Haven't sent any spam messages but received a few from contacts. What I had yesterday though was my my entire contact list showing as offline when I know for a fact that most of them weren't.

[MrMarkyMark]

No, I am talking about your contacts getting spam links from YOUR account suddenly, looks like happening on global scale right now - some kind hole in Skype system rather than malware on PC.

Developed by Microsoft, so why am I not surprised

[AtW]

The links are in this format (they are redirecting to spam sites, removed essential parts of them so that they don't work)

http://goo.gl/REDIRECTID?djdanik=YOURCONTACTSKYPEHANDLE
http://cnn.it/REDIRECTID#93571=YOURCONTACTSKYPEHANDLE

[mudskipper]

No, I am talking about your contacts getting spam links from YOUR account suddenly, looks like happening on global scale right now - some kind hole in Skype system rather than malware on PC.

Yep, I got one of these messages from a contact.

[AtW]

Yep, I got one of these messages from a contact.

You are infected now ...

[MrMarkyMark]

Yep, I got one of these messages from a contact.

Are you just being shy and it really came from ATW's account