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Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft's security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake.

Microsoft said Wednesday that a buggy anti-virus definition update, released last Friday, had mislabelled Skype as pop-up adware program called Win32/Vundo.gen!D. The issue was fixed Monday in a signature update so users who have version 1.31.9121.0 of Microsoft's malware signature file should be fine.

Microsoft's security products were not removing Skype, simply blocking it from running, so users should not have to install any new software once they've updated their anti-virus definitions. "Once the signatures are updated on the user’s machine, Skype will operate normally," Microsoft's public relations agency said in a statement.


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