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Old 11-20-2007, 01:03 PM   #1
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Old folks have less problems than younger

Have you ever wondered why? Well it might be due to Old people do things that younger people do not do...
1. I format every harddrive - requardless - before I use it. Now
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Malware preinstalled on new hard drives
Saturday, 17 November 2007
The Taipei Times is reporting that around 1,800 new 300GB and 500GB external hard drives manufactured by Maxtor shipped with malware on them. What makes this story even more interesting is that Taiwanese authorities suspected that Chinese authorities were involved.

“The bureau said that hard discs with such a large capacity are usually used by government agencies to store databases and other information. Sensitive information may have already been intercepted by Beijing through the two Web sites. That the method of attack was unusual, adding that it suspected Chinese authorities were involved. In recent years, the Chinese government has run an aggressive spying program relying on information technology and the Internet. This was the first time it had found that Trojan horse viruses had been placed on hard discs before they even reach the market.”

Now I’m not a security expert or anything like that, but doesn’t everyone format the hard drive before you install your OS on it? Of course you can use it just like storage device, and in that case something like that would be probably possible…
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Old 11-20-2007, 01:34 PM   #2
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I have installed many hard drives in the past and always have had to make it ready at least for the OS to see it, or other times it was formated because I was going to install a new clean OS on said drive. What is this world coming to and I hope this doesn't give our great Gov any ideas.
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