If you thought Trojans strictly feast on data from your PC, think again…
Reportedly, here comes a unique program called “BotVoice.A Trojan” which not only deletes data from your hard drive but also taunts you and pokes fun at you while doing the dirty job.
This Trojan actually talks to the user, telling him/her, “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.”
Imagine an irritating message like this is repeated over and over again even as the Trojan tries to delete the entire content of the PC’s hard disk. This it proceeds to do by deploying a text-reading program that is part of the Windows operating system.
At times, BotVoice.A may not succeed in deleting all of the system files, but — it is still capable of rendering a PC unusable. It modifies the Windows registry such that neither the programs installed nor the task manager can run. Besides, it also blocks the running of files with common extensions like COM, EXE, BAT, HTML, in order to prevent interference.
BotVoice.A does not spread on other PCs on its own — instead it uses P2P networks; physical storage devices such as USB memory sticks, floppy disks, or CD-ROMs; as also downloads performed by other malware or from malicious Web pages.
Since this Trojan is unknown, the infection cannot be prevented by traditional antivirus software that relies primarily on signature files of known malware.
Meanwhile, Panda Software, incidentally the first security company to have spotted this funny Trojan claims that users of Panda software with TruPrevent Technology were not infected by the culprit.
TruPrevent is an advanced technology that incorporates behavior analysis, which can detect malicious code that was previously unknown and not included in even the most updated malware signature files.
