Posted on 11/13/2007 7:05:20 AM PST by holymoly
A small number of Seagate's Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 consumer hard drives are infected with a password-stealing virus.
If you bought one of Seagate's Maxtor Basics consumer hard drives recently, check it for viruses. Especially if you're a gamer.
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.
The hard drive maker is blaming an unnamed subcontractor, located in China, for the problem. Seagate said it learned about the problem from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab. According to published reports, Seagate has had problems with Maxtor Basics drives sold over the past few months in the Netherlands and Taipei.
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The hard drive maker is blaming an unnamed subcontractor, located in China...
Virus infected HDs. Made in China. Whould'a thunk it? /sarc
OMG....who buys a Seagate HD? lol
Companies who work on the cheap....
Gone are the days you could obtain a decent HD from Micropolis Corp...
My Seagate's: still going strong.
It’s always a good idea to wipe clean any purchased hard drive, whether new or used with something like DBAN.
I've seen 1-month failure rates of Seagate drives in clustered server environments of - literally - 75%. And those were RAID class drives.
They make the worst HD on the planet.
May I be the first to say...Thailand!!?
ping
PING!........
Made in China
And for anyone not familiar with "DBAN", Reaganwuzthebest is referring to Darik's Boot and Nuke, a self-contained boot-floppy that can wipe most hard drives.
Particularly useful if you're disposing of, or donating, an old PC, which may have your private information on the HD.
DBAN is free.
There is a reason why things “made in China” are often so cheap.
While we pass laws which firms have to comply with in regards to environmental, safety, social (child/prison labor)....... firms are going to locations that circumnavigate all these standards and and then import their crap onto the shelves at Wal-Mart.
Think about it. Do you really think that much of the IT operation based in India complies with Sarbanes-Oxley?
Maxtor drive are crap. After my 2nd one crashed and burned, I said never again. I have never had a WD fail on me. I still have 4 gig drive that are running like a champ years later!
Their older drives used to be great. All of my older, smaller drives except one were Seagates, and they all ended up being replaced over the years due to capacity, not failure.
Every single one of em still works as well as the day I pulled it, but there’s not a lot even I can do with 4 GB anymore.
Simple rule: repartition and format your new drives before use.
I’ve never had a problem with Seagate drives. These are Maxtor drives.
YMMV.
I had two Seagates about 10 years ago that were great....but today, they're just crap.
Maxtor drives=Maxtor design.
You may remember that Maxtor was a kluge of Maxtor and Quantum.
Remember Quantum drives??
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