Re: Urgent: skype vulnerability?

Posted by Gillian Densmore on Sep 07, 2013; 3:40pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Urgent-skype-vulnerability-tp7583763p7583769.html

Ah the joys a gnutella- not only does it taste good on toste it also makes a badass communication protocol--though if Memory serves you'd need a Fast Tracking network "try out"  Music-

Gests aside it's my understanding that Skype used Kazza's protocoll, (as compared a amature-call) this permitted colledge students to make cheap (or free calls)  damn neer anyware (while 'trying out') music and software--

So nick the Executive summery here is this:

-The phone companies suck

-Skype is fun and cool, but might eat bandwidth

How is skype working for people?

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi, everybody,

 

I have a Verizon jet pack for my internet here in Massachusetts and every once in a while huge charges have appeared on my usage, apparent downloads of a gigabyte scale of magnitude.  I complained to Verizon and they did an analysis of my record and tell me that these are VOIP usages.  Their suspicion is that some teenager in my house is using the box to make phone calls over skype.   But there is no teenager in my house and no other house within an eighth of a mile.  Is it possible that some Trojan is using skype to communicate.  Why?  What would be the benefit to the hacker.  Using my computer for what?  In any case, I have murdered skype.  Is there any other abuse of the voip protocol that could be going on in my computer?  Can I disable voip altogether on my machine?   My service costs ten dollars a gig, so this is not a small matter for me.  Anybody have any thoughts? 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

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