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Bureau warns on tainted discs
Taipei Times ^
| Nov 11, 2007
| Yang Kuo-wen, Lin Ching-chuan and Rich Chang
Posted on 11/12/2007 2:00:49 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
I’ll take two please.
It’s nothing a repartition/reformat wouldn’t solve. Do people not automatically do that anyway?
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:03:28 PM PST
by
Petronski
(F-R-E-D! Fred! Fred! Fred!)
To: Mount Athos
good way to destroy a competitor.
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:04:32 PM PST
by
Fred
(The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
To: Mount Athos
Globalization is sooo good for the common defense.
To: Petronski
That and turn off every bit of autorun possible. If I pop in a CD or a new hard disk, I want it to sit there quietly until I run something on it. I never want it to start a program automatically.
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:17:00 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: Mount Athos
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said. China is our FRIEND! /s
I don't know if we've ever bought anything from Seagate Technology, but we certainly won't buy anything from them now!
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:18:52 PM PST
by
Just Lori
(There is nothing democrat-"ic" about democrats.)
To: Petronski
The first thing I do is to delete any partitions on the disk and lay it out the way I want it. New filesystems follow. This is a non-issue to all but the most incompetent customers.
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:23:33 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Just Lori
I don't know if we've ever bought anything from Seagate Technology, but we certainly won't buy anything from them now! Why? Flatten the partitions and reformat and the little beasties are gone.
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:24:59 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
To: Centurion2000
I’ll leave that to my guru hubby. I don’t know nuthin’ bout no disks! =)
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:30:50 PM PST
by
Just Lori
(There is nothing democrat-"ic" about democrats.)
To: Just Lori
You wouldnt want a seagate product anyway. Western Digital makes the best disk drives.
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:33:07 PM PST
by
omega4179
(fred08 dot com)
To: Centurion2000
People who know how to partition wouldnt buy a seagate anyway.
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posted on
11/12/2007 2:33:37 PM PST
by
omega4179
(fred08 dot com)
To: omega4179
People who know how to partition wouldnt buy a seagate anyway. Didn't they acquire Conner some time ago?
Why are we allowing packets to China, anyway? When will someone finally drag an anchor chain over the cable/fiber and end all this?
To: omega4179
Over the years with Western Digital drives I’ve personally seen a failure rate of 8 to 1 over Seagate’s. In short, I’ll never understand why people ever buy Western Digital drives.
I guess people will always have a need for multiple door stops. :)
p.s. In fact my ST-506 and ST-412 (both Seagates) still run to this day.
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posted on
11/12/2007 3:35:22 PM PST
by
master_obvious
(I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. - Ronald Reagan)
To: Petronski
No, people automatically assume a product will perform just as advertised.
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posted on
11/12/2007 5:20:14 PM PST
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
To: omega4179
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People who know how to partition wouldnt buy a seagate anyway."
I have 1 or 2 U320s running from Seagate nicely. I never saw a new HD that was partitioned. Those have to be planned and formatted in whatever file system you use. I think people buying partitioned and formatted 500GB HDs are lazy idiots.
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posted on
11/12/2007 6:01:44 PM PST
by
BobS
(I><P>)
To: Just Lori
Stay away from Maxtor, too.
Their price is right, but their drives are not very reliable.
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posted on
11/12/2007 6:49:27 PM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, back in the U.S.A.!!!)
To: Mr. Jazzy
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posted on
11/12/2007 7:06:39 PM PST
by
omega4179
(fred08 dot com)
To: Mount Athos
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posted on
11/12/2007 7:22:16 PM PST
by
AnimalLover
( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
To: Mount Athos
Another good reason for my practice of immediately formating any new drives to ext3... Linux doesn’t do Windows viruses. I don’t even have wine or any other emulators loaded...
To: Mount Athos; All
“Waiter! Low level formats for the house!”
hehehe
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posted on
11/12/2007 8:06:16 PM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, back in the U.S.A.!!!)
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