Seagate Shipping Virus infected HDDs

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Madolah

#1 November 22, 2007, 12:24:23 am

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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/virus-lockdown/seagate-fingers-hard+drive-poisoning-employee-hardens-prevention-measures-full-story-323994.php

Seen this on CNN just now but couldn't find the CNN article so i found the next best.

It seems Seagate Hard disc Drives made in China and shipped out where pre installed with a Trojan horse virus. the security flaw has been fixed and all HDDs are now cleared but if you bought one recently go get it checked to be safe.

This also apparently happened with the Itouches made in China with not only a trojan virus but a folder that was un-deletable that was an ad-ware.

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Ghost_Aspergers

#2 November 22, 2007, 12:37:39 am

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Is there some sort of underground movement to fuck up all exports from China? Every week there is a new story...

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I don't think I have to worry about this though. My anti virus should catch it should my latest seagate drive (external) have it.

Last Edit: November 22, 2007, 12:39:46 am by Chainer

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Moriason

#3 November 22, 2007, 12:41:35 am

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Mince Wobley

#4 November 22, 2007, 12:49:00 am

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I think it was someone tired of slave work who did this as a form of revenge.

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Lars

#5 November 22, 2007, 01:06:58 am

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Quote from: Inri Cheetos on November 22, 2007, 12:49:00 am

I think it was someone tired of slave work who did this as a form of revenge.

What an interesting theory.

More likely, some worker was paid off by a rival company.

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ATARI

#6 November 22, 2007, 01:53:25 am

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I suspect Western Digital

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Rowain

#7 November 22, 2007, 02:04:29 am

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It was only on Maxtor Basic 3200 or some shit according to that article. I've never even heard of that unit, so I doubt it affects anyone in North America. Sounds like most of the units ended up in China/Taiwan or Russia and the Middle East. Still, it made them tighten their quality assurance which is never a bad thing!

Also, the trojan was a keylogger targeted at gaming passwords. Sounds like someone is trying to hijack WoW accounts!!

WHY SO SERIOUS HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

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Pepoke

#8 November 22, 2007, 04:58:28 am

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Ive never even heard of seagate. But yeah, good thing my China-made American flag keychains cant get viruses

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>>thatll do no good, im already in the house

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Chubby Skelly

#9 November 22, 2007, 05:09:48 am

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Wait, how could this even work? Are these drives preformatted and the virus comes from an autorun file? Is it in the MBR? Either way I can't see how this would affect most people unless it was used as a secondary drive, because if it were used as the primary OS drive, the virus would almost immediately be overwritten by the OS installer.

Last Edit: November 22, 2007, 05:11:38 am by Doozer

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Madolah

#10 November 22, 2007, 05:34:30 pm

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Quote from: Doozer on November 22, 2007, 05:09:48 am

Wait, how could this even work? Are these drives preformatted and the virus comes from an autorun file? Is it in the MBR? Either way I can't see how this would affect most people unless it was used as a secondary drive, because if it were used as the primary OS drive, the virus would almost immediately be overwritten by the OS installer.

pretty sure there was a small hidden partition containing the virus

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tuxedo marx

#11 November 22, 2007, 05:43:01 pm

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Quote from: Inri Cheetos on November 22, 2007, 12:49:00 am

I think it was someone tired of slave work who did this as a form of revenge.

it is no longer the 19th century

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Grin Tree

#12 November 22, 2007, 05:52:30 pm

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I used to be pretty cool with this chinese guy a while back and I needed to backup some things on floppies because I didn't have a CD drive, so he gave me a new case of these 3.5" floppy disks from China. Pretty much all of them had the ANTI-CMOS virus--even though they appeared to be blank.

It was a pain in the ass to say the least, and I can't say I'm surprised to hear this.

Last Edit: November 24, 2007, 02:12:02 am by Grin Tree

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Kaempfer

#13 November 22, 2007, 06:53:23 pm

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Quote from: ATARI on November 22, 2007, 01:53:25 am

I suspect Western Digital

This is why I bought a WD drive; they are more clever then their competition!

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Pepoke

#14 November 23, 2007, 02:26:43 am

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Quote from: Rockman. on November 22, 2007, 05:43:01 pm

it is no longer the 19th century

Yeah but its China

Edit: CHINA

Last Edit: November 23, 2007, 02:28:19 am by Pepoke

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>im checking the windows before i go to bed..
>>thatll do no good, im already in the house

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#15 November 23, 2007, 05:51:48 am

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Quote from: Pepoke on November 23, 2007, 02:26:43 am

Yeah but its China

Edit: CHINA

I don't know why, but he brings up a good point...

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Kaempfer

#16 November 23, 2007, 11:07:10 pm

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Quote from: Killface on November 23, 2007, 05:51:48 am

I don't know why, but he brings up a good point...

Is it because you are racist imbeciles?

China is a country of billions run by a federal government that had done a superb job of curtailing corruption in a region historically know for its ever present corruption. One of the primary concerns with the poor state of labour laws in China is that much of the money that is creating the awful working conditions is coming from the US: a problem that many countries have faced over the years.

Admittedly much of China still remains in a rural, poor economic bracket where the law is incredibly hard to administer, but for the most part the government has done a much better job than people give it credit for. I am not saying they don't censor everything out the ass and arrest and kill their own people for "political" reasons, but considering the state of China as recently as sixty years ago you cannot help but respect them. Unless you're a racist know-nothing, of course.

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Quickening

#17 November 24, 2007, 12:52:03 am

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Actually, I suspect it's miscommunication. China have over 30 dialects and at the rate of their exporting power, lil' village workers from the outpost don't have time to learn city-Mandrin. So when the boss said, "Give those hard drives a proper pre-install," his managers must have heard, "Screw those hard drives accidentally," and the working minions must have heard "Fuck those American hard drives."

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Kaempfer

#18 November 24, 2007, 01:13:26 am

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More like:
Boss: "bing bong ching chong"
Manager: "ching chang bing bang"
Worker: "long bong bangarang"

amirite because China is backwards and it's CHINA right guys right?

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Pepoke

#19 November 24, 2007, 01:23:05 am

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Quote from: Kaempfer on November 23, 2007, 11:07:10 pm

Is it because you are racist imbeciles?

No its because you friggin whine to much. Geeze. Just be thankful your computer doesnt have a virus[or ][/or]

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>im checking the windows before i go to bed..
>>thatll do no good, im already in the house

Oh, that dog of mine!

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Mince Wobley

#20 November 24, 2007, 02:04:39 am

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Quote from: Kaempfer on November 23, 2007, 11:07:10 pm

Is it because you are racist imbeciles?

It's not racism, it just seems that China likes to manufacture lower-quality everything using (almost) slave work while it might be "good" because it's cheaper to manufacture things there and maybe it's also "good" for their economy I don't think the workers actually like that way of life (working 28 hours a day and being paid 0.01$ per hour)

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