Some Seagate Hard Drives Virus-Infected

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The tech sector of the Internet brings us a helpful word of caution today, as Techworld reports one line of Seagate hard drives are infected with a Chinese virus. The company is warning users today that a small percentage of Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drives purchased after August 2007 were shipped with a virus called "virus.win32.autorun.ah." Catchy name.

That particular virus actually finds your online game passwords and sends them to a private server, including searches for the ubiquitous World of Warcraft. Seagate customer support can help you figure out if your drive is one of the infected, and the company is offering anti-virus software through its Web site for removal of the virus. This way, you won't have to worry about anyone ganking your level 70 night elf.

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Virus on some Maxtor hard drives
Lately a news concerning Maxtor hard drives became very popular, I don't know how old the press release is but it seems that a few Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 products got shipped with a virus affecting online games, including World of Warcraft. If you've got one of them it might be a good idea to run an anti-virus scan.

Full news on Seagate.com

If you have purchased a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 product since August 2007 the product may be infected with a virus. Kaspersky Labs, a maker of anti-virus software, has alerted Seagate to the existence of a virus found on at least one Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 product. Seagate has traced this issue to a small number of units produced by a Maxtor sub-contract manufacturer located in China. Seagate quickly put a stop ship to units leaving the facility as soon as the company learned of the probable infection. All units now leaving the facility in question have been cleared of the virus and units in inventory are being reworked before being released for sale. However, some affected units may have been sold to the public before the problem was detected. Seagate apologizes for the inconvenience that has been caused as a result of this incident.

According to Kaspersky the virus is the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah, a molar virus that searches for passwords to online games and sends them to a server located in China. It also deletes other molar viruses and can disable virus detection software. All of the known games affected are Chinese with the exception of World of Warcraft. The following games are affected.

WSGame | 91.com | QQ | Woool | rxjh.17game.com | TianLongBaBu | AskTao | Perfect World (Wanmei Shijie) | World of Warcraft

If your Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 unit is infected or to ensure that your unit is clear from this virus, install the latest virus definition list for your anti-virus software.