Engadget has posted a story revealing that a number of Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external drives have been packaged with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus. The affected models were manufactured at a sub-contractor in China. Amazingly enough, the virus phones home data it collects to guess where…a server in China!
If you’ve purchased one of these drives, you can call Seagate (for those under a rock, Seagate owns Maxtor) with the serial number of your drive and they will be able to let you know if you have one of the affected models. It really won’t help if you’ve set the virus loose on your system already, but it would be a good idea to give them a call first thing if you purchased it and have yet to hook it up.
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autorun antivirus? Its marketing step, but no real defend srom viruses.
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