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Amus Email Virus - uses Windows Speech Engine (talks on infected PCs)

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

  We've received some questions on the Amus (yeah, we know) email worm. Specifically, on the speech properties of this virus.  This worm will use the Windows Speech Engine (built-in to Windows XP) to speak the following message when run:

  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.

To find out what the message sounds like, listen to this audio file:
Play http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/amus.wav.