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The revenge of the pissed off PC

It seems that there is a new virus out there that will literally taunt you once it infects your PC.  That's right…it will literally taunt you by taking control of your PCs speech engine and repeating a message.  Anti-Virus vendors say that the virus does not appear to be destructive and rate it a low risk but it should be cleaned nevertheless.

Virus writers have created a piece of malware that 'talks' to victims. The Amus email worm uses Windows Speech Engine (which is built-in to Windows XP) to deliver a curious message to infected users.

The message reads: "How are you. I am back. My name is mister hamsi. I am seeing you. Haaaaaaaa. You must come to turkiye. I am cleaning your computer. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Gule. Gule." ("Gule. Gule" is Turkish for "Bye. Bye". "Hamsi" is a small fish, like an anchovy, found in the Black Sea).

If you want to get a listen to the message you can download a wav file from F-Secures web site here.



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