UPDATE: Skype Admits Bug Sends Messages to Wrong Contacts - gallaghermathe1984

Skype users who recently updated their instant messaging service are being warned that a bug in the software can, in scarce cases, make instant messages to be sent to the fallacious impinging.

According to Skype, the problem only if occurs "when a user's Skype client crashes during a Skype IM academic term, which may in some cases result in the last IM entered or sent prior to the crash beingness delivered to a different IM contact later the Skype client is rebooted or logged in atomic number 3 a new user."

The issue was first reported last calendar week by a Skype exploiter on Skype's Support Network forums. According to that substance abuser, a.k.a. "SunnyLady78," the Skype client began acting strange after she updated her Skype in June. In a thread noble "Skype schoolbook messages I received have gone to other middleman," SunnyLady78 describes the problem:

"I am really astonied and shocked how it has happened. When I did last one and only Skype upgrade in June 2012 it has turn to work very strange. Sometimes when I open chat window with few contact, It lists all latest messages from that person although I have already read them.

Few days ago one friend from my contact list has received few messages I had already received before from other my skype contact. It seemed these messages were sent by me. It is rattling confusing.

I have no history pick in concealment part and cleared complete my cookies. How can I protect my concealment?"

Skype says it is working on a fix. The ship's company isn't sure how many users are affected, but it estimates that the number is "very slender given the very specific circumstances under which the error occurs." Still, Skype is presently working on fixes for the versions of Skype that are affected, which include Skype 5.9 and 5.10 for Windows, Skype 5.8 for Mac, Skype 4.0 for Linux, Skype 1.2 for Windows Phone, Skype 2.8 for Android, and Skype 4.0 for iOS.

Skype is a video, voice and instant messaging military service that was purchased aside Microsoft for a whopping $8.5 billion in May 2011. In May 2012, Skype investigated a tool that allowed hackers and other ne'er-do-wells to find Skype users' hold out identified IP addresses.

UPDATE: Skype has issued the first hotfix, and they will be reverberant out hotfixes for the affected versions of Skype over the next few days. Skype has also compulsive that Skype 5.9 for Windows, Skype 2.8 for Android, and Skype 4.0 for iOS take over not been affected.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/459921/skype_admits_bug_sends_messages_to_wrong_contacts.html

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