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Re: Skype suspicious download activity ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Mon Dec 9 07:12:19 2013

In-Reply-To: <CAMzo+1ZKf_1QLhzOY+O4GiKrxxCcA8+jXW3TsejMhH7RXeseOg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 06:11:56 -0600
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Skype previously showed a warning message showing that the Skype API /
Third party applications would  stop working as of December 2013.

I would bet there was a silent forceful update to the software...


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-JH


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just caught an alert on my desktop about high disk activity by Skype,
> looking at the details it shows a 472MB of disk write activity, no
> notification of upgrade or any other messages.
>
> Trying to see if I can find what was recently written.
>
> This the first time I see a report about such high disk activity related to
> Skype.
>
> Anybody seeing anything similar ?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Jorge
>
> PS. Platform is Windoze Vista 64bits
>



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-Mysid

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