Quick heads up for all you Skype users!
A new trojan horse spreading through Skype is causing havoc among home & business PC's. Once on the infected PC, the trojan begins BitMining for BitCoints (a virtual & untraceable currency that is gaining popularity). Potential victims are encouraged to install a file that is included with
messages like "this my favourite picture of you". If the malicious file
is installed, one of its features is to turn the machine into a Bitcoin
mining slave.
A hacker controlling 100,000 of these trojans can easily make over $270,000 a day with current bitcoin prices.
If you use Skype and your computer seems to be running slow lately, open up your task manager and see if any program is using 50-99% of your CPU. If so, you may be infected and should do a boot-time scan with your Avast Anti-Virus (You are using Avast aren't you?). If this does not remove the infection, or if you'd rather not mess with it yourself, please contact me for a remote or on-site support session.
-Matt
