A Trojan that repeatedly announces its mayhem while it erases the user's data. It says "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." Discovered in 2007, the Talking Trojan added a new level of nastiness to the whole affair. See Trojan.
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