[Cialug] OT: Not that you needed another reason to hate maxtor

[Brandon Griffis]

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.

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.

-B

On Nov 19, 2007 3:48 PM, Stuart Thiessen <sthiessen at passitonservices.org>
wrote:

> That's what I have usually seen: one preformatted Windows partition.
>
> Stuart
>
> On 19 Nov 2007, at 15:30 , Nathan Stien wrote:
>
> > On Nov 19, 2007 3:21 PM, Claus <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Hard drives are pre-formated.  The article even states that Seagate
> >> is
> >> giving out a 60-day trial of kaspersky labs antivirus.  So a common
> >> virus was placed on the hard drive.  Moral of the story: format your
> >> hard drives.
> >
> > It has never even occurred to me to try looking at a new hard drive
> > without manually putting a filesystem onto it myself.  So HDs
> > typically come with one big FAT32 or NTFS partition on them?
> >
> > - Nathan
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