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Title: Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
Post by: Gary on Nov 27, 2007, 09:07:45
"Seagate said that antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives"
Its getting harder to trust anything to be safe these days  :hide:

Full article here: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39290782,00.htm
Title: Re: Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
Post by: Rik on Nov 27, 2007, 09:10:43
That is just plain crazy, Gary. What are they up to?
Title: Re: Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
Post by: Gary on Nov 27, 2007, 09:14:49
God knows, I see China got the blame and I think most were caught but that is madness, if a new drive can contain malware what's next?
Title: Re: Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
Post by: Rik on Nov 27, 2007, 09:15:47
Particularly if it can disable AV software - it's an appalling breach (one that could cost them dear in the American courts).
Title: Re: Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
Post by: Gary on Nov 27, 2007, 09:19:19
True, with the issue over the drive size as well they are not doing so well at the moment :(
Title: Re: Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
Post by: Rik on Nov 27, 2007, 09:26:24
It's going to make for interesting re-specifying of drives.  ;D