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"About 1,800 brand new 300-GB or 500-GB external hard drives made for Maxtor in Thailand were found to have trojan horse malwares pre-installed (autorun.inf and ghost.pif). When the HD is in use, these forward information on the disk to two websites in Beijing, China: www.nice8.org or www.we168.org. The article implies that authorities believe the Chinese government is behind the trojans. A later article pins down the point of infection to a subcontractor company in China. A couple of months back the Register was reporting on pre-installed malware detected on Maxtor disks sold in the Netherlands. This earlier report was downplayed by a Seagate spokesman." The more recent Taipei Times article says that Seagate admits the problem on its Web site, but a search there turns up nothing.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/11/2246246&threshold=-1 Recommendations before using external hard drives and usb flash drives(Thumb drive): 1. Buy from a reputable vendor. 2. Don't use autorun in Windows. 3. Format the hard drive before use. this doesn't scare me, but the computer dumbos here should take note ![]() ![]() ![]() rofl, dumbos, no offense ![]() |
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Posted on: 2007/11/12 9:26
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