http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/070507-talking-trojan-says-bye-bye.html?nlhtsec=0702securityalert5&
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 endlessly repeating an
audible message, 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 peer-to-peer networks or storage
devices such as CD-ROMs or USB memory drives.
The Trojan is unusual because unlike most malware written these
days, it appears to be designed to perform mindless vandalism, said
Roger Thompson, CTO with Exploit Prevention Labs. "I haven't seen
brainless vandalism like that for years," he said via instant
message. "The good news is that such a Trojan will never be
widespread, because everything is profit-oriented now, and there's
not a lot of money in taunting someone."
The voice clip, for the interested. Pretty scary, in my opinion.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/img/enc/TrjBotVoiceA.mp3
