A Simple Message Can Crash Skype So Badly You Need to Reinstall It

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A new bug appears to crash Skype when a short string of text is sent as a message across the service — and the effects are so bad that it requires a reinstall to get things working hitch-free again.
 
Reports on Skype forums and VentureBeat reveal that a message containing the simple string of characters “http://:” will crash Skype whether it’s running on Windows, Android or iOS. Apparently the OS X app is unscathed, as is the touch-specific version for Windows 8.1. On forums, a Skype spokesperson has written that its teams are “aware of the problem and... working to provide an resolution.”
 
Sadly, there’s no simple solution to the problem. Deleting your chat history won’t work, because Skype will download it afresh every time you start the app. Instead, Verge reports, the current best suggestion aired in forums to overcome the issue is to have the person who sent you the message delete it and to install an older, bug-free version of Skype.
 
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This does sound like an annoying Skpe bug which people would use to troll their friends.  It is annoying that people who got affected by this bug needs to uninstall, and re-install an older bug free version of Skype until Skype fixes this problem which may take days, weeks, or months.
 
I think one of the advantages of the website version of chat, and video chat program like chat rooms like Yahoo Chat, Google Hangout and Facebook Messenger is you just need to refresh the website, and clear your browser's cache, cookies, and history in a web browser to get sent fresh version of the program hosted on a website running in a browser like Google Chrome or Firefox.
 
I rarely use Skype because e-mail is more convenient, and Skype video sometimes is slow when I use it, so this bug will most likely not affect me because I rarely open up Skype, or talk to people on Skype.

But, hopefully this bug would be fixed soon.
 
Kind of glad I don't use skype much but that is a major bug.
 
Martin said:
First iPhones, now this. These bugs are pretty stupid and should never actually be possible. 
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I agree these bugs are pretty stupid, but at least the iPhone bug required an english, symbols, arabic  and chinese character
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 in the message which is a less common than http://:  which people can type more easily.
 
I think they got it fixed, or at least found a solution to stop the bug until they fix it. Typing http://: on Skype doesn't seem to send the message anymore. I tested it with two skype accounts on my PC and laptop. When I tried to send http://: the message wouldn't send. It just showed up as loading indefinitely.
 
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