Help! video message received spam

my mom kept getting calls telling her she needed to download a player in order to hear a video message she received. she didn't know what she was doing and DOWNLOADED the player. IT'S SPAM!! now her computer is SUPER SLOW and I need HELP!
thanks!!

Set your Call and Skype settings to "Contacts only", this way you won't get unsolicited calls and Skype IMs. The only thing this still won't stop are new contact requests.

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