Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives

[Gary]

"Seagate said that antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives"
Its getting harder to trust anything to be safe these days 

Full article here: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39290782,00.htm

[Rik]

That is just plain crazy, Gary. What are they up to?

[Gary]

God knows, I see China got the blame and I think most were caught but that is madness, if a new drive can contain malware what's next?

[Rik]

Particularly if it can disable AV software - it's an appalling breach (one that could cost them dear in the American courts).

[Gary]

True, with the issue over the drive size as well they are not doing so well at the moment

[Rik]

It's going to make for interesting re-specifying of drives.