I feel compelled to not even give any of you my skype because I really doubt it's a wise choice to make.
Also skype isn't a virus and you know nothing about the internet or computers for thinking otherwise.
Skype has never given me a single issue (virus-wise), so any issues you develop while using skype is just because you're stupid.
Also as for this "hurr wiretapping conspiracy" stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if that was true. Maybe if you kids stopped thinking Skype has complete privacy anyway (because it never did) and avoided doing stupid, illegal stuff, there would be no reason for them to do anything like that. I've seen some crazy stuff go down on skype that includes child research sharing and links to tons of other warez stuff. A good 90% of it was done by ignorant children thinking they were perfectly hidden behind a screen.
There is nothing anywhere that says Skype offers any good form of security whatsoever. You have an account, a password, and a way to talk to people over the internet, that's all.
It's not a virus; quit thinking you know all this stuff about software you probably barely touched at all and just got a virus because you don't know how to use a computer and just instantly blamed skype.
You people are about as dumb as all the extremist Apple fanboys.