Russian bloggers discovered a vulnerability in Skype, which allows you to "kill" the application remotely by sending a certain sequence of characters. Then, the user who received the message, unable as usual to start the program.

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Russian bloggers discovered a vulnerability in Skype, which allows you to "kill" the application remotely by sending a certain sequence of characters. Then, the user who received the message, unable as usual to start the program.

As reported by CNews, to cause a failure, it is enough to send the recipient the following message: "http://:" (without the quotes). After that Skype will close and when you try to restart will notify you of the error. I found a problem when sending messages with an older version of Skype. The fixed crashing on devices running Windows and Android.

the performance of the program can be restored by reinstalling Skype or delete a file from the history main.db system in the application folder (%appdata%\Skype\Uchetnaya_zapis_Skype\main.db).