Friday, July 6, 2007

Talking Trojan says bye-bye

A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims' computers, it taunts them too.

The program, called the BotVoice.A Trojan was first spotted by security vendor Panda Software last week. It is a Trojan horse program, which the victim must download first. But once installed, it gets nasty. The Trojan soon sets to work trying to delete everything from the victim's hard drive, while at the same time <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/05/Talking-Trojan-says-bye-to-data_1.html">endlessly repeating an audible message,</A> apparently designed to taunt the victim.

"You have been infected; I repeat, you have been infected and your system files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye," the Trojan says.

It does this by using a text-reading program that is part of the Windows operating system, Panda said. Users of Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, and 95 are all at risk.

Unlike a virus, BotVoice.A does not jump from computer to computer on its own, but spreads via p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks or storage devices such as CD-ROMs or USB memory drives.

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