Posted on 11/18/2007 7:55:06 AM PST by Doohickey
Seagate Technology LLC has shipped Maxtor disk drives that contain Trojan horses that upload data to a pair of Chinese Web sites, the Taiwanese government's security service warned this weekend.
The Investigation Bureau, a part of the Ministry of Justice that's responsible for both internal security and foreign threats, said it suspected mainland China's authorities were responsible for planting the malware on the drives at the factory. "The bureau said that the method of attack was unusual, adding that it suspected Chinese authorities were involved," a story posted by the English-language Taipei Times reported Sunday. "Sensitive information may have already been intercepted by Beijing through the two Web sites, the bureau said."
Seagate confirmed today that some Maxtor Basics 3200 drives were infected out of the box, but the company said it had no proof that the Chinese government was involved. "We discovered that a contract manufacturer had introduced a virus onto the drives during assembly," said Forrest Monroy, a Seagate spokesman, in an e-mail. "We have no indication, nor any reason to believe, that there is any government involvement in the virus issue."
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"You knew I was a snake when you picked me up" - Aesop
I made a decision that we would not eat those fillets and have been cooking them for the cats. They love them.
If it’s a new drive, the simplest thing is to format them before you install Windows. Good practice to do this anyways when you setup Windows.
***Seagate, however, countered that the only data captured by the on-disk Trojans and sent to the Chinese Web sites were game-related passwords.***
Yeah, SURE!
Ah China. Ironic that a Commie superstate gives us unchecked capitalism at its most fierce. Buyer beware.
This “malware” is almost certainly in one of the chips on the drive rather than on the disk. Take it back.
1800 old Maxtor drives.
Could cripple the world.
If that’s the case how would running Kapersky or any other virus scan remove viruses not actually on a disk sector?
You’re right, no big deal. This was just the work of some random Chinese hoodlums. Our most favored trading partner means us no harm.
Bookmark for later reading.
Notably, the only candidate for pres who would do something about this is Duncan Hunter.
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo
I already don’t buy Maxtor drives. Now I have another reason.
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