‘Talking Trojan’ Makes Fun of You as It Erases Your Hard Drive

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Anyone besides me remember those series of Southwest Airline commercials with the “Want to get away?” theme. The premise was you’d screw up badly, and thus need an airline trip to get away from it. One of them involved someone opening up a virus which then infected the rest of the PCs on the network, and the virus was laughing away all the time. Seems like someone else saw that commercial.

The program, called the BotVoice.A Trojan was first spotted by security vendor Panda Software SA 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. Source: PC World

We Say: Well, since you have to download it (meaning it’s really your fault if you get infected), my thought would be … here’s the Southwest Airlines website …