Does SKYPE read your bios?

[BellisimaJ.]

Skype reads your BIOS

Talks to your motherboard when your dad is out, too

By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 07 February 2007, 15:02
REPORTS are coming in from eagle-eyed users who have spotted the Voice over IP outfit Skype's software reading their BIOS and motherboard serial number.

Over here, one bloke who runs 64-bit versions of Windows, spotted a strange dialogue box which says "the program or feature "\??\C:\Documents and Settings\Myria\Local Settings\Temp\12\1.com" cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows."

In other words your phone is trying to run a .com file, which doesn't work that well in Win64 because there’s no NTVDM.

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[jezebel]

My PC is Skype free.