Virus writers have released a piece of malware that speaks to the victims of the computer. The worm is called Amus and uses the Windows Speech Engine (which is built in with Microsoft Windows XP) to deliver a message to the user.
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).
The worm has not become very widespread and most Anti-virus software companies have not labelled it a very highrisk piece of coding. Amus is spread by email, as an attachment using subject\'s such as \"Listen and Smile.\" It seems only Windows users are affected by it (whats new?) When the attachment has been opened the worm is spread to other e-mails, and the sound file is triggered.The worm also changes IE settings, so users see a message in Turkish (complaining about the quality of local telecoms) instead of visiting their usual start page.
