Skype is available for windows, os x, linux. Are all affected? If not, why are you being coy? If this were a mac or linux problem, you'd be trumpeting but you're curiously silent when it's windows. How about being journalists instead of shills?

Frankly put, sending links to smut is really worth nothing. I mean if you really want to find skin pics, Google is more than happy to comply. Gosh just search for "girl" or "bikini" and I'm sure you'll have opened the door to hours and hours of smut-surfing fun.

When it's that easy, what is the incentive to click on yet another smut link ? From someone you don't even know ?

Only a moron would blindly trust such a thing.

Oh, right. There's millions of those. Well this could just have an influence after all. So when are we going to hear that Skype is being sued for allowing people to send links and attachments ?

If you follow the link in the article you'll find that the full name of the virus is IM-Worm:W32/Pykse.A according to F-Secure - almost certainly windows only.