I did a quick search through my data and there haven't been any major Skype vulns in a while. There's a local privilege escalation from this last spring and URL snooping, but neither should result in massive Skype usage. The Dark Comet Remote Access Tool (RAT) uses the Skype port and protocol to "phone home", so you might have a pest problem. Even worse, a vulnerability was published last fall for getting in to the Dark Comet RAT via it's use of Skype - so if you have Dark Comet, someone could be breaking it to get into your computer.
I'd do an off-line, boot from CD/DVD, virus scan with your anti-virus of choice. The Jet Pack provides a wireless access point - could someone be piggybacking on that? What's your WiFi security? Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov<mailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov> SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov<mailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov<mailto:dopa...@doe.ic.gov> (send NIPR reminder) On Sep 6, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Hi, everybody, I have a Verizon jet pack for my internet here in Massachusetts and every once in a while huge charges have appeared on my usage, apparent downloads of a gigabyte scale of magnitude. I complained to Verizon and they did an analysis of my record and tell me that these are VOIP usages. Their suspicion is that some teenager in my house is using the box to make phone calls over skype. But there is no teenager in my house and no other house within an eighth of a mile. Is it possible that some Trojan is using skype to communicate. Why? What would be the benefit to the hacker. Using my computer for what? In any case, I have murdered skype. Is there any other abuse of the voip protocol that could be going on in my computer? Can I disable voip altogether on my machine? My service costs ten dollars a gig, so this is not a small matter for me. Anybody have any thoughts? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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