Seagate Hard Drives Ship with Virus

Seagate announced last week that an unknown number of it's Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drives have shipped with a virus on them. This virus is primarily designed to steal online game passwords, but still represents a risk to consumers. Seagate is offering a free 60 day trial of an antivirus program that you can download from their website to identify and remove the virus.

You can download the antivirus program from Seagate's website at: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/personal_storage/ps3200-sw

This reminds us of the virus that Apple shipped on their video iPod last year (http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus.) Remember, even though it's brand new doesn't mean you shouldn't run a virus and spyware check!

Derek Rowan
President
HLP Associates, Inc.
http://www.hlp.net/