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Can anyone help me to send the installation file for international Skype?

Can anyone help me to send the installation file for international Skype?

I live in mainland China and just found out that using Skype here is all a big SCAM:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=452361

Or if you do a Google-search on www.google.se: skype tom.com porn

http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&newwindow=1&biw=1280&bih=552&q=skype+tom.com+porn&oq=skype+tom.com+porn&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=360563l369686l0l370056l28l22l0l4l0l4l3091l21023l0.1.0.1.0.6.6.9-4l18l0

I found it out after having used the Chinese version of Skype for a long time, and getting more and more annoyed by the popup-windows from www.tom.com. The Chinese version of Skype can be downloaded from http://skype.tom.com (which though, according to reports, if full of trojans so I wouldn't visit it).

There is no way to turn these popup-ads from www.tom.com off in the settings so, suddenly when I'm deeply concentrated on my work (and need to have Skype on to stay in contact with my customers), there pop up porn pictures from www.tom.com, or pictures from a person in Shanghai who had her throat cut up and lies in blood in the subway, etc. etc. (thousands of pictures, daily updated). I just want to be able to use Skype while I concentrate on my work. It's not possible with the Chinese version of Skype.

So I wonder if anyone could upoad the installation file for the international version of Skype here? Because I didn't manage to download this installation file, even though I use a VPN (and I can access sites like Facebook and Youtube here in mainland China).
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I managed to get the international version of Skype to work finally, downloaded it from FileHippo:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_skype/

I don't know why this worked and another download I tried for the international version didn't.

Anyway, it works now, I can use international Skype without any problems. Bill, do you think I still should follow your steps to really clean up from Skype Tom, and reinstall international Skype?
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Thank you hermesalpha