Seagate Winchesters Steal World of Warcraft Passwords
If you bought a portable Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drive from August 2007, then you should definitely get tested for viruses. Recently, Thai technologists found that a batch of 1,800 winchesters of this model was infected with Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah . The audit showed that all infected hard drives were made in a small Chinese factory that executes orders for Seagate.
Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus is not dangerous. He just searches for computer passwords from a number of online games and sends them to a remote Chinese server, and also removes competing viruses and deactivates anti-virus software. Passwords are stolen exclusively from Chinese games, as well as from World of Warcraft.
Seagate has officially confirmed this information. Naturally, the shipment of products from the guilty plant was immediately suspended and the investigation of this strange incident was launched. At the moment, all Chinese hard drives are being cleaned of viruses before shipment to consumers, so there is no reason for concern, says Seagate.
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via IDG News
Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus is not dangerous. He just searches for computer passwords from a number of online games and sends them to a remote Chinese server, and also removes competing viruses and deactivates anti-virus software. Passwords are stolen exclusively from Chinese games, as well as from World of Warcraft.
Seagate has officially confirmed this information. Naturally, the shipment of products from the guilty plant was immediately suspended and the investigation of this strange incident was launched. At the moment, all Chinese hard drives are being cleaned of viruses before shipment to consumers, so there is no reason for concern, says Seagate.
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via IDG News
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16132/
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