This is something to be aware of and careful with too. Many external HD and even flash drives now not only come preformatted but with an autorun file that will automatically install (something) onto windows just for plugging in the drive. We're often told it's just a little utility to make the drive show up with a WD or Segate or Maxtor or... icon. But I wouldn't doubt that various spy/virus stuff has been thrown in as well.
<br><br>If you have autorun enabled, you might be infected just for plugging the drive in, even if you format it 2 seconds later. Better to just turn it off and have to double click the drive... or not run Windows.<br><br>
-B<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2007 3:48 PM, Stuart Thiessen <<a href="mailto:sthiessen@passitonservices.org">sthiessen@passitonservices.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's what I have usually seen: one preformatted Windows partition.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Stuart<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On 19 Nov 2007, at 15:30 , Nathan Stien wrote:<br><br>> On Nov 19, 2007 3:21 PM, Claus <
<a href="mailto:cniesen@gmx.net">cniesen@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hard drives are pre-formated. The article even states that Seagate<br>>> is<br>>> giving out a 60-day trial of kaspersky labs antivirus. So a common
<br>>> virus was placed on the hard drive. Moral of the story: format your<br>>> hard drives.<br>><br>> It has never even occurred to me to try looking at a new hard drive<br>> without manually putting a filesystem onto it myself. So HDs
<br>> typically come with one big FAT32 or NTFS partition on them?<br>><br>> - Nathan<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Cialug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">
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