The Security Mentor

Scare headlines warned of a security problem in Skype, the instant messenger and voice chat product.

Looking at the detailed reports at security companies, though, it turned out the only thing going on was that somebody was sending executable files via Skype. The urge to shout "Duh" is hard to resist. Don't open programs unless you know exactly what they do. The odds of something safe and useful showing up in a chat are fairly low. Nothing to do with Skype.

At first report, the file was named "sp.exe", but this could change instantly.