Hard drive trojans

Started by hazelnut, Nov 12 2007 07:11 AM

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#1 OFFLINE hazelnut

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Posted 12 November 2007 - 07:11 AM

Trojans found in new hard drives

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...mp;threshold=-1

CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND HERE

http://www.piriform.com/docs

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#2 OFFLINE CTskifreak

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Posted 12 November 2007 - 04:52 PM

Wow...that sucks...you think that when you buy a drive, it is totally clean....and guess what? SURPISE!! TROJAN INFECTION

I hope they catch these losers that are doing it.

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#3 OFFLINE Andavari

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Posted 12 November 2007 - 08:26 PM

Probably not much of a problem if people format new disks (not just hard disks) that they get. Although it's an understandable pain if buying a new PC with an OS on it.

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#4 OFFLINE Humpty

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Posted 14 November 2007 - 02:30 AM

I would boot with a Paragon live cd then delete all partitions and recreate/format.

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#5 OFFLINE rridgely

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Posted 14 November 2007 - 03:12 AM

If these drives were internal ones it probably wouldn't matter because people would just reformat them as they installed their OS but these are external usb so as soon as you plug it in your screwed. You would think they would be using better manufacturers to avoid stuff like this(especially a big company like maxtor.)

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