An odd 'ad' when opening Skype

When I open Skype it pops an ad to install a flash player update, as I regularly keep up with adobe flash I thought this very very odd. The picture which I copied using the snipping tool is below.
Now the website it tries to take me to when clicked is a known phishing site, this is unusual and something I did not have before and to my knowledge I have installed nothing new. Has anyone seen this before? If so how does it get resolved?

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Anonymous UUID:
Wed Aug 13 21:51:02 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8019cdc24e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8019c4c6d8, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000002c80001529, CR3: 0x000000001c9ce000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
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RSP: 0xffffff808661fdd0, RBP: 0xffffff808661fe10, RSI: 0xffffff8086620068, RDI: 0xffffff802cf42900
R8: 0xffffff8028520050, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x000000000000000b
R12: 0xffffff802cf42900, R13: 0xffffff801a2cb680, R14: 0xffffff802cf42950, R15: 0x00110000ffffff80
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0xffffff808661fa60 : 0xffffff8019c22f79
0xffffff808661fae0 : 0xffffff8019cdc24e
0xffffff808661fcb0 : 0xffffff8019cf3746
0xffffff808661fcd0 : 0xffffff8019c4c6d8
0xffffff808661fe10 : 0xffffff8019c4ccf3
0xffffff808661fe40 : 0xffffff8019c4c130
0xffffff808661ff10 : 0xffffff8019ccf779
0xffffff808661ff50 : 0xffffff8019ce22c6
0xffffff808661ff80 : 0xffffff8019cdb80f
0xffffff808661ffd0 : 0xffffff8019cf3909
0xffffff80ac643b70 : 0xffffff8019c166a4
0xffffff80ac643bb0 : 0xffffff8019c163c4
0xffffff80ac643c10 : 0xffffff8019c13bed
0xffffff80ac643c80 : 0xffffff8019c1d96a
0xffffff80ac643cd0 : 0xffffff801a03d8f9
0xffffff80ac643fb0 : 0xffffff8019cd7417
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Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.3.0: Tue Jun 3 21:27:35 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.110.17~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: BBFADD17-672B-35A2-9B7F-E4B12213E4B8
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Since I posted this issue, I was later informed that the other user is infact opening my files with CS5 and so a quick solution to this was saving it down to a previous version! Sorry for the confusion!
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