Is this spam or an actual warning?

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1. thankyoumaskedman says:

   December 30, 2010 at 1:29 am

   As seen at http://whois.domaintools.com/updateft.org the domain was created 22-Jun-2010 with an address in the Czech Republic. You probably don’t (or didn’t) have malware to begin with. If you visit the site you probably will.

   Or maybe there is malware transmitting the Skype messages, but the site it is directing you to could make it worse.

   Having gotten the chance to visit the site, it told me that it has scanned my computer and found many threats in Windows. Since I visited the site from linux (I would never do the experiment from Windows.), I can assume those are fake. It offers to sell a removal security patch for $19.95. I would expect the "security patch" to be malware.

   I’m not familiar with Skype, so I don’t know if it can simply be spammed, or whether a malicious pop-up program is used to create the messages.

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