New hard drives shipping with viruses!

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

http://www.gametab.com/news/1106769/

I never really liked Maxtor anyway, but Seagate is a large company and many people buy their stuff. Heads up!

Kizzume · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

Re: New hard drives shipping with viruses!
? Reply #1 on Nov 14, 2007, 3:40pm ?
That's weird. Do people actually hook up their hard drives without formatting them and then use them? Is there such a thing as pre-formatted hard drives? Why would someone use such a thing? I always repartition and format when I get a new hard drive. At least my habits are good. Smile

Seagate is-..... wait a minute.... when did that happen? When did Seagate buy Maxtor? Why would they buy such a crappy company? I sure hope seagate drives are still made like seagate drives and not maxtor. Wow. I just learned two things.

Hackfest · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 413

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/12/21/seagate_buys_maxtor/

technocrat · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 216

Usually, one would assume a NEW drive would be clean, thus there not being a need to be paranoid. It's not as if you were buying it used from joe blow.

Kizzume · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject:

Yeah, but don't most people format their drives when they get them? This is very odd to me. I still can't find any articles about it that explain this further.