Seagate hard drives come with their own trojan

This story got lost in the holiday shuffle, so I’m just getting to it now.  Stop me if you’ve heard it before.  Seagate is a large manufacturer and distributor of hard drives, many of which are made in China.  A recent batch of drives was infected with a trojan designed to sniff passwords, and all signs point to the drives having been infected at the Chinese factory.  The original news reports claimed that the hard drives were destined for Taiwan, but it now seems that some might have ended up in the US as well.  Seagate now offers free anti-virus software to a anyone who purchased a hard drive from them and wants to ensure it’s clean.  Alternately, you could just format your new drive to ensure it’s empty.  To read more about the infection, and how it might have occurred, read the full story at Internet News.

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