Amus worm that speaks to Windows users
ZDNet and
others are reporting on the Amus worm that spreads through an email attachment called "Listen and Smile" and causes your computer to speak a strange message after it boots.
Sounds like the worm author used the SAPI TTS, which is very easy to demo in normal windows scripting:
Type this code into Notepad, save it with filename "anything.js" and double-click:
function DoSpeak(phrase) {
var vt=WScript.CreateObject("Speech.VoiceText");
vt.Register("",WScript.ScriptName);
vt.Speak(phrase,1);
while (vt.IsSpeaking) WScript.Sleep(100);
}
DoSpeak("This is a long test of TTS")
As long as you have the c:/windows/speech directory installed (comes standard on a TabletPC), you can get it to say anything you want.
