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12/12/2013 15:19:32
 
 
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Windows
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Virus scan
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Windows 7
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Thread ID:
01590028
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Yes, she *may* be. The entire point is trust - the machine must be trustworthy to be useful.

If she's working by herself, she merely has to convince herself it's trustworthy.

If she's in a corporate environment/LAN she'll need to convince the sysadmins that whatever she ends up doing is acceptable. In fact if she's in such an environment the decision is no longer hers, there is probably a policy on what to do in cases like this; she'll need to inform IT support if she decides to do anything other than restore an image backup or rebuild from scratch.

>She *may* be at the point she wants. Many times those third party installers install not only malware but older versions of the application.
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>>Skype is now owned by Microsoft. I don't use it, but my guess is MS would not allow a default Skype installation to include any other 3rd party products and certainly not any grayware or malware.
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>>Your next step is to find out if you downloaded a legitimate Skype installer. If you did, by uninstalling the crapware you're probably at the state you want and you don't need to worry further - although it would have been better to opt out of the crap while you were installing.
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>>If you are not certain you used a legitimate installer, you must assume your computer is compromised. Trojaned repackagers of legitimate applications usually include stealth rootkits; it's usually easier to rebuild your system from scratch than to try to detect and remove these rootkits. If this is the case hopefully you have an image backup from a point not too far before you installed "Skype". Otherwise you'll need to rebuild your system.
Regards. Al

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