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Seagate Ships Virus-Laden Hard Drives
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by Anach » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:20 am
If you bought one of Seagate's Maxtor Basics consumer hard drives recently, check it for viruses. Especially if you're a gamer.
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Seagate is warning that a "small number" of its Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drives recently shipped with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus, malicious software that "searches for passwords for online games and sends them to a server located in China," according to a note posted on the Seagate Web site. Only drives purchased since August 2007 are affected, Seagate said.
Any of you folks who have bought credits are encouraging this
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by gelfling » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:36 am
Yikes! That isn't good news. Does this only affect the Maxtor drives made by Seagate or the normal Seagate drives as well?
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