Nice new hard drives carry Trojan horse viruses

[Killer360]

There have been plenty of stories this year about problems with Chinese manufacturing outlets, though, not many of them have touched on the technology industry. Now, however, Seagate is admitting that some of its hard drives that were made in China came with a trojan horse password sniffer pre-installed. It mostly targeted Chinese online games, but the one American game it included was the ever-popular World of Warcraft. On the plus side, the trojan also disables any other password stealing keyloggers that it finds. Seagate is now offering free copies of anti-virus software to customers impacted by this. In the meantime, experts suggest that you might want to format any new hard drives you get, just to be safe.

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http://techdirt.com/articles/20071115/030335.shtml

About 1,800 brand new 300-GB or 500-GB external hard drives made for Maxtor in Thailand were found to have trojan horse malwares pre-installed (autorun.inf and ghost.pif). When the HD is in use, these forward information on the disk to two websites in Beijing, China: www.nice8.org or www.we168.org. The article implies that authorities believe the Chinese government is behind the trojans. A later article pins down the point of infection to a subcontractor company in China. A couple of months back the Register was reporting on pre-installed malware detected on Maxtor disks sold in the Netherlands. This earlier report was downplayed by a Seagate spokesman."

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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/11/2246246



Large-capacity hard disks often used by government agencies were found to contain Trojan horse viruses, Investigation Bureau officials warned 

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387202

[iago]

There have been plenty of stories this year about problems with Chinese manufacturing outlets, though, not many of them have touched on the technology industry.

Actually, this is the third time this year that infected harddrives have originated in China. :P

[while1]

I could live with China poisoning our children, but trojan horsing our geeks draws the last straw!

[CetniK]

I could live with China poisoning our children, but trojan horsing our geeks draws the last straw!

LOL.

[Killer360]

I could live with China poisoning our children, but trojan horsing our geeks draws the last straw!

Lmfao.