Geoff, sorry I cannot be more specific, I am just reporting rumours. The last one I heard in Oct. 2010. If you have anything to hide on your computer (such as passwords, account data, email, ...), you may want to do further research. I googled Skype spyware constrained to not older than one year; 2,400,000 hits were indicated. You must judge by yourself, I can only inform you that such rumours exist.