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Skype crashes — and won't stop crashing — if you send it this message

Discussion in 'Microsoft News' started by James Vincent, Jun 3, 2015.

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    It's a bad time for messaging apps. Just a week after it was discovered that a tiny string of characters can disable Messages on the iPhone, a similar bug has been found that takes out Skype. Receiving a message on the Microsoft-owned platform containing the characters "http://:" was reported to crash the software when running on Windows, Android, or iOS, although Skype for Mac and the touch-optimized Skype for Windows 8.1 are reportedly unaffected. (In our own tests, the message crashed the iOS app, but the Android version was unscathed.) The problem was flagged up on Skype's forums and first reported by VentureBeat, with a spokesperson for Skype confirming the bug's existence to the publication: "We are aware of the problem and are...

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    James Vincent, Jun 3, 2015
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