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June 15, 2012 10:44:20 AM



Lately I've been seeing "SYSTEM NOTICE _ URGENT ONLINE REPAIR" pop up on Skype and mistakenly believed it to be a notice from Skype that they were working on their systems. This morning, however, I've had three Skype calls from this outfit and a recorded voice invites me to go online to some scam site or other.

I post this information in case it helps one person to be saved from an awful lot of tourble and possible expense. I'll try the website later from a safe system and report back anything I find.

Meantime, I recommend declining this call if you get one.



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June 23, 2012 12:55:20 AM

Hi :) 

Maybe you need some NEW AV software.... ?

All the best Brett :) 
June 23, 2012 6:46:36 AM



Let me know when someone develops an AV that can stop a Skype call, Brett. :D  Meanwhile, I'll soldier - well, actually - sailor on with Microsoft Security Essentials.



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June 23, 2012 5:37:53 PM

Saga Lout said:


Let me know when someone develops an AV that can stop a Skype call, Brett. :D  Meanwhile, I'll soldier - well, actually - sailor on with Microsoft Security Essentials.





Hi :) 

Hold on a sec....that URGENT NOTICE message is IN YOUR MACHINE....anything you see in a browser is...

So better AV...we use NIS 2012....the best there is....

All the best Brett :) 
June 23, 2012 5:49:27 PM

I'd be tempted to uninstall it, do a full scan and reinstall. Make sure there is nobody you don't recognise on your contact list and enable only contacts to be able to call you.
June 24, 2012 7:01:19 AM



Sorry chaps but you're missing the point so I must have explained thios wrongly. The message was of a missed call from someone who set their Skype name up as SYSTEM NOTICE etc just as they may have set up as Brett or Womble. No AV on the market is going to stop that.

I misunderstood the message as being from Skype saying they were working on their site and it wasn't until I was actually at my PC when another call came through that I realised it was a scam.

Skype users will know they can block a caller they don't want to hear from again and I have, of course, done so. It is not a malware attack, merely a telephone call and o software can block it other than Skype itself which in my system, it now does. You may also be interested to know the message also showed up as missed calls in my server running Linux - perhaps you think a Linux AV would have stopped it? :D 



June 24, 2012 11:01:59 AM

Well that's just us being guilty of leaping to conclusions:)  and thanks for the heads up.

Touch wood, keeping the settings as visible to contacts only will avoid any trouble. Mind you just set up my skype in number so will keep an eye on things. Skype has been great over the years, skype out has saved me a fortune with the phone, hope it doesn't deteriorate now that it has changed hands.
June 24, 2012 2:21:16 PM

womble said:
hope it doesn't deteriorate now that it has changed hands.





You're right - it's brilliant and a great money-saver. I send texts out for 8 Euro cents that would cost me 12p in British money and I get to use a full-size 102 key keyboard and not my mobile.

It's remarkable how safe it remained all these years as the hands that developed it also did Kazaa, if I remember rightly.


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