Skype users thought they were being targeted by a worm this weekend when a piece of software suddenly installed itself on their computers through the VoIP client.
The application, called EasyBits GO, was delivered as a Skype Extras update and left a lot of users baffled over its purpose or origin.
"I know that I was never asked, nor given information about it before it was not only installed on my machine, BUT RUNNING in the background.
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Everyone I know who has Skype is kind of sitting around saying 'WTF?!?' on Facebook and forums and trying to research this piece of garbage," one user
wrote on the Skype forums.
Because of the suspicious behavior and the fact that people had trouble removing it from their computers after the installation, some users understandably flagged it as a worm.
It turns out the program belongs to EasyBits Media, the company which created Skype Extras, a framework for games and other apps bundled with Skype since 2006.
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