I just received a phone call from my brother and he said that upon
updating the GW Tool Kit app, he gets the same message on his computer.
He was calling me to tell me not to update that app. He played it for me
and it says the exact same thing as the message referred to in this
message below.
Carol
On 1/16/2015 6:54 AM, Dave Bahr wrote:
ah, just read previous message on this and the version of gwtoolkit is
8.5.7 as well as 8.5.8, so I was wrong about the version
numbers.Still, come on, get a life.
On 1/16/2015 5:35 AM, Brandon Miller wrote:
It has been a very long time since I've posted anything to this list,
but what I am wondering about now is a very, very strange and
disturbing message that Window-eyes 9.0 continuously announces as
long as I have it, Window-eyes, running. Has anybody else been
getting the announcement, "Greetings on behalf of the Islamic state.
The time of repentence is near. Please contact Gw Micro for further
information."? I know, I know. It sounds like my system might have
become infected by some sort of malware, but I really don't think so.
I am a Microsoft certified systems engineer (MCSE for short) so I
know a thing or two about computers, yet having said that, here are
the exact steps I took to get this announcement to start continuously
playing about every two and a half to three minutes. I:
1. Woke up my computer by pressing the power button, as I had put it
to sleep this morning before leaving for work.
2. I was then, as would be expected based on this system's
configuration, presented with the welcome screen.
3. I arrowed to my username, and pressed enter.
4. I input my password, and pressed enter.
5. The desktop appeared, Window-eyes loaded, I manually started
Dropbox, I then alt tabbed in to Window-eyes and pressed alt F4 to
shut it down.
6. I pressed the spacebar to activate the OK button. Window-eyes
closed.
7. I pressed the windows key, typed in k, l, a, n, g, o, and pressed
enter to launch an app known as the Klango player to ketch up on a
podcast I've been enjoying.
8. I caught up on the podcast (it's called the Leviothin Chronicles
if you're curious) and then completely exited Klango.
9. I pressed control alt w to relaunch Window-eyes, since I was
again back in Windows, meaning I was outside of a self-voicing
application. About two minutes after doing that I was getting ready
to head to bed when I heard Window-eyes say something out of the
blue. "Hmm. That's odd", I thought to myself, "I know Dropbox is
already up-to-date, I have no other apps actively running save
Window-eyes, what did that say?"
10. Tired as I was, I waited out of curiosity to see if any other
announcements would be voiced, and sure enough, they were. This very,
very strange and disturbing message, proportedly coming from the
Islamic state, informing me that the time of repentence is near and
instructing me to please contact Gw Micro for further information
was, and even as I write this continues to be, repeated over, and
over, and over. Thoughts?
Respectfully submitted,
Brandon Dean Miller
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