Some Maxtor Personal Storage 3200s Shipped With Virus

[[MyIS]Dan]

Seagate is advising those who have purchased a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drive since August 2007 to check them, if they haven't already, for viruses. Some 3200 drives may have came preloaded with a Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus right out of the box. The malicious code is searching for passwords to online games (World of Warcraft included) and sends them back to a server located in China. It can also disable virus detection software. In order to determine whether your drive is preloaded with this virus, feel free to phone Seagate with the serial number in hand, or update your anti-virus software with the latest definitions.

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http://www.techpowerup.com/?44287

Makes me happy I went for the WD MyBook now.. Even tho I was advised to get one of these :dead:

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That must mean one of the computers used to format and write data to the disks in the factory was infected.... GG Maxtor

[FingolfinKing]

Wow. Good luck on your sales.

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Since maxtor was bought by seagate I don't trust them anyway. I've heard some bad things about WD so I'll stick to Hitachi.