A new type of virus?

I got a message from a friend I haven't talked to in years this morning, saying nothing but
" {hi} Vee! {mess} {links}/{folder}/[Removed for privacy] "
after which he promptly went offline again.
Now, I'm guessing I'm seeing the hyphenated stuff because I have emoticons turned off. But the {links}/{folder}/[Removed for privacy] thing is a clickable link ending with my own username, so it seems to be an internally used URL for skype.  Alt text leads to {urls.txt}  It seems fishy to me and I thought I'd put out the message just in case. A google search led me here but to a deleted topic. Ergo, here it is again.

This is a widespread issue. http://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Spoofed-message-from-contact/m-p/4035082#M47608

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