new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

if this is true it could be very disturbing for some folks

http://www.itpro.co.uk:80/news/13747...-websites.html

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

Think the links dead mate.

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Try this link: http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/137472/t...-websites.html

Thing is, most people will use these drives to host an OS, which will normally mean a format at the time of install.

Also, most uses will be partitioning a harrd drive of this size down into smaller chunks, normally by deleting the one "whole drive" patition, and then creating multiple smaller ones. These partitions would then also need formatting.

Both of the above procceses would erase the trojan.

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

its working here anybody else having problems?

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wonder if they will sell these off cheap, quick reformat and there you go!!

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The story implies that the Chinese Govermenr is behind it, which doesn't supprise me.

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well they'll just find out what a lot of perverse wierdoes we western capitalist pigs are, hmmmm velllly inellesting;)

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:shocked:Speak for yourself!

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These drives are\were sold by PC World. I have 1.

Gonna look for the files that are supposed to be on it.



Didnt find any on my drive, and im definently a western capitalist perverse pig :angel:

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

I bought two the other week - will have to check when I get to work tomorrow.

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

Smells of complete and utter BS if you ask me...

What a load of old tosh!!!

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I'd agree with you. :tu:

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Yes? And?

I can't find anything on that Seagate article which states:

Quote taken from the ITPro article:

...and from the Seagate article:


Only heard of World of Warcraft...but the point is - it only sends game passwords...

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

Depends who you believe, but could well be the usual press misinformation:-

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiw.../12/2003387447

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Not according to the official document from Seagate it doesn't...

Amazing how the press twist things uh??

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

At the end of the day it might be tosh, but if there is a file on there that shouldnt be it would be prudent to remove it regardless of what it looks for and the data it may collect. Err on the side of caution.

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

Indeed - and I'm sure most people here who are capable of installing their own PC's, the first thing they do would be to format the drive - even if Windows does it.

I can't see how the two files would survive!

Re: new hard drives with trojan on board!!
 

Yes I agree that most people would, but the drive comes pre-formatted to ntfs so its just a case of plug and use, like I did. I would never imagine that a new external drive would come with any files on it, let alone a possible virus and after reading the original post for the few seconds it takes to check :)

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as i read it they are external drives and most people are not technical they would plug it in and away u go!!!
every thread just recently ends up as a conspiracy theory. its an interesting article imo and well worth people checking if they have one of the mentioned drives.

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Taken from http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/137472/t...-websites.html

I would have thought these portable drives are USB external jobbies...