>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>For quite some time I noticed that people who are in My Skype contacts are shown with the Skype Online status close to their names in UT in Internet Explorer.
>>
>>I'm wondering how exactly did this happen and is there a way to turn this "feature" off?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Two issues: How the callto: tag got into the web page in the first place and what that tag is associated with.
>
>In IE try : Tools/Manage Add-ons. Look around for Skype under Toolbars and Extensions and also Accelerators and try disabling those.
>
>Or, in Skype advanced settings uncheck "Use Skype to call callto: links on the web"

I disabled add-ons in IE Tools. I haven't re-started UT and so far I still see the little x. But I think it should disappear on the next re-start.

Thanks, Viv.