SSM and Skype behaviour

[ogodei]

Hi everyone,

I have found this:

"Myria at pagetable.com, among others, noticed that Skype reads the machine's BIOS code on startup. This probably would've gone unnoticed if the operation didn't fail on 64-bit windows. From the post: 'It's dumping your system BIOS, which usually includes your motherboard's serial number, and pipes it to the Skype application. I have no idea what they're using it for, or whether they send anything to their servers, but I bet whatever they're doing is no good given their track record... If they hadn't been ignorant of Win64's lack of NTVDM, nobody would've noticed this happening.'"

@ http://www.pagetable.com/?p=27

I am not a Skype user, but I'm wondering if SSM would have noticed this Skype's of behaviour...

Question to SMM & Skype users: did SSM warned something about Skype's? Can SSM prevent this kind of data gathering?

[lodore]

there where some proactive defence messages from KIS6.0/kav6.0 about skype but most people in the forum said its ok to allow them since its skype.
but it could of been it doing that sending of data but i dont know.
im guessing ssm can stop this just like pdm in kaspersky can
lodore