to Restore the application can only be made after the reinstallation.

Skype has a bug that allows you to remotely cause a failure in the application on the computer of the interlocutor, in which case it will close spontaneously, reports cnews.ru with reference to the Russian bloggers.

to cause failure in Skype, just send the recipient a message of the form "http://:" (without the quotes). Upon receipt of this character sequence the Skype application on their computer will close and when you try to open it again, it will display a message about the problem.

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the Vulnerability only works when the message is sent from the younger (older) version of the Skype app in the older (new) version. When sending messages from the new version to the old failure occurs. The vulnerability is successfully working as in cases where the sender is in the contacts list of the recipient, and in the other.

According to users, the crash only appears on Windows PC and on mobile devices with Android.

the Performance of Skype on your PC, you can restore it by deleting the file history main.db system in the application folder (%appdata%\Skype\Uchetnaya_zapis_Skype\main.db). To block automatic synchronization of messages (in Windows not the message sent to the same account on an Android device), it is necessary to prohibit the entry in the folder %appdata%\Skype\DataRv. If the failure occurred on an Android device, you must re-download the APK file and reinstall Skype.

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