The good news is the problem wasn’t malware.
So I decided to write about it here because you could be next. It was interesting to see that as I went through my contacts and sent people a message telling them to ignore my Skype message, I saw that quite a few of them had sent me something similar in the previous months too indicating this problem is very widespread. In doing research on the issue on various forums like Skype Community and Jukka-Pekka Keisala, I discovered that the Baidu Hack is very common and had been an ongoing problem on Skype for months affecting many thousands of people. I hadn’t logged into Skype recently so I didn’t think somebody had sniffed my keystrokes. I recently went through and changed all my passwords. I use different passwords at each site I register at. I do everything that Internet security pros say to do. How could this happen? I’m diligent about my password management! (If I sent you something, sorry!) When I checked, it appeared that all of my Skype contacts got a link from me via Skype message that seemed to point to a baidu page. Over the weekend, I received several notifications from friends saying they had gotten a suspicious link from me via Skype message.
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