Confirmed. Saw this in the Register last week. Seems the drives got
polluted via some sub-sub-contractor in China. Think the story said ~300K
drives affected and the mfg knows where most of them are.
Best,
Duncan
At 09:58 11/22/2007 -0700, you wrote:
On the news yesterday about a virus in NEW hard drives shipping from
China. BS or fact ?
How is this possible on a un formatted drive ? or would it be embedded in
the firmware ?
Looks like Seagate
Fp
thanks
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