Surreptitious recording of Skype calls

I was just on Skype with a friend who I communicate with often, however this was the first time from his new iPad.
At one point we got disconnected, not unusual as he's in Australia and I am in US, so I sent a IM saying call back etc.
When we got reconnected, his iPad displayed a message "Skype Recording" in RED colour across the top information line of his iPad (where it tells you signal strength etc.)
For the last 10 days when I re-boot my computer Windows Firewall tells me it is blocking "some features of Skype" so I tell it to unblock and then everything is OK, i.e.. Skype starts normally etc.
I use "SpyBot Search and Destroy" as well as "AVG" and "Sophos" as anti-virus and they have not found anything suspicious.
Could I be infected with something that is not discoverable by those anti-virus software ?
Any help / informed opinion would be appreciated.
Thanks
Paranoid in USA

afaik, that is a feature of the iPad and not of Skype. as far as I remember, it is some sort of iPad notification indicating that the iPad's microphone is being used by another application, which in this case, the Skype App. try browsing the iOS/iPad section of this forum for similar threads.
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