Why does the new version of skype create many processes in win xp?

Question

Skype

Worth Win XP. I recently updated skype to the latest version and when it is turned on there is an intensive data exchange and a bunch of processes are created:

Previously (with the previous version) this was not the case. Dr web reveals nothing. How to treat it? Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

How long has TCPview been showing processes?
In the picture I see open ports in localhost

Answer 2

Your question is useful even without an answer - now I know one more disadvantage of the current Skype.
And since the answerers went offtopic and began to advise all sorts of alternatives (outlook, muzzle book), then I will advise you - you can switch from Skype to ooVoo, which is better than the current Skype in many aspects, and in all others at least no worse.

Answer 3

Does skype still support Win XP?
put the old version and check the work...

Answer 4

nothing is suitable for a chat with a voice and a muzzle book, and from phone to phone too :) there would be an Internet ...

Answer 5

Skype also works on XP,
but the fact that a bunch of processes in the system is a mess
check the system for viruses, check the registry, check system files
can it be a virus?

Answer 6

Probably, the supernode mode was screwed up again. It was like this long before the purchase of Skype by small soft ones to offload servers at the expense of users with a wide channel; turned off in the registry, now you can hardly pull off such a feint ...