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Seagate offers warning about infected hard drives shipping with Trojans

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Seagate has issued a warning about Trojan Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah that has infected a number of shipped hard drives.

An excerpt from ZDNet:

Seagate said that anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives.

The anti-virus company identified the virus as Virus.Win32.Ruh.ah — malware that can disable virus-detection software, although its prime function is to search for online game passwords and send them to a server in China.

This is not the first time that Seagate has shipped infected drives (VNUnet). While no hard drive manufacturer wants to be associated with Malware distribution, it should be noted by consumers to take apt precautions with new drives. As mentioned by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet, these precautions include a clean scan and wipe out on drives before they are put to use.

More news:

Seagate Storage Units Ship with Virus (eWeek)

Chinese Trojan on Maxtor HDDs spooks Taiwan (ChannelRegister)

Hard disk trojan sends saved files to websites (PC Pro)

Seagate Ships Virus-Laden Hard Drives (PC World)

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MAXTOR IS SEAGATE---HOW ABOUT THAT BALTHOR | 11/14/07
On the off chance you'll actually return to a topic and read the responses, Palmetto | 11/14/07
Ya know, I read his reply and went. Yea, he is right... But DanLM | 11/14/07
Simple to Counter stadia@... | 11/14/07
What about firmware? Oz_Media | 05/26/08
I didnt realize it either w2ktechman | 11/14/07
The article called the drive Dumphrey | 11/15/07
Well, that just answered my question Dumphrey DanLM | 11/15/07
I pulled apart Dumphrey | 11/16/07
what size drive ? robert_graff_79@... | 05/26/08
Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 Oktet | 11/16/07
possibly a firmware virus written in assembly code? robert_graff_79@... | 05/26/08
THERE IS A BIOS ON EVERY HARD DRIVE BALTHOR | 11/14/07
There's no BIOS on a hard drive. Palmetto | 11/14/07
Interesting link Drakaran | 11/14/07
Right Track GSG | 11/15/07
If it's in the flash Drakaran | 11/15/07
Thats 2 posts in one thread, thats the most I have ever seen DanLM | 11/14/07
take a look at the thread w2ktechman | 11/15/07
It is not that hard to put a virus on an external usb hard drive Oktet | 11/16/07
RE: Seagate offers warning about infected hard drives shipping with Trojans giscoord@... | 11/15/07
giscoord, thanks! Palmetto | 11/15/07
Corporate Sabotage? j70141 | 11/15/07
China Issues...again Nomad10345 | 11/15/07
Heard about that lead also Oktet | 11/16/07

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