Talking Trojan

The first variant of the Talking Trojan Horse was detected by Panda Software in the summer of 2007. This security vendor tagged the infection with the name BotVoice.A. The company warned that this Trojan Horse has the ability to slip through many vectors of a computer. Some of the most vulnerable areas include the following: •through widely used physical storage devices such as a USB flash drive, iPod, CD-ROM or smartphone •directly through an installation initiated by other Trojans, malware or malicious sites via P2P networks After a talking Trojan has been successfully installed, the program uses the operating system’s text reader to play an audio message that sounds something like this: “Your computer has been infected. I repeat, your computer has been infected and all of your system files have been deleted. Sorry. Bye bye and have a nice day.” A Talking Trojan also has the ability to prevent certain types of files from running. Some of the files it may disable include MP3, COM, BAT, and EXE. A Talking Trojan can disable the registry editor and Task Manager in the Windows operating system. This makes it nearly impossible for a user to halt active processes and undo deleted files.