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Seagate Technology, maker of hard drives, confirmed that its Basics 3200 drives were shipped from its Thailand factory with two Trojans pre-installed on them.

The Trojans report everything written to the disk to two web sites hosted in Beijing. Or, the Trojans only captured and sent game-related passwords, depending on who you believe.

Reportedly, 1,800 of the 500GB Maxtor drives were shipped. Some 1,500 were recovered, and the rest were sold.

The Taiwanese Government broke the story, saying it suspected the mainland Chinese authorities were responsible for installing the Trojans at the factory.

Seagate replied that it had no evidence of that. It also claimed that the problem has been solved, and all drives leaving the factory are now clean.

This is one more reason why I always recommend you maintain five layers of protection on your computer. To read what that is all about, see my Oct. 5 post right here:
http://mypcsecurityblog.com/?p=7

Syd Tash is a noted computer security consultant and author of How to Protect Your Computer Online. He has been keeping Internet surfers safe and secure since the last century. Find out how he does it; protect your own computer with five layers of protection right here: => http://MyPCSecuritySite.com

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