<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/596891dc-fc80-469c-8569-9fcf10ebf0b7/D5C50599-0458-492E-B510-DC079EA587AA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2" href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2"><P>An undisclosed number of Seagate's Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games—including World of Warcraft—the company <A target="_blank" href=" http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/personal_storage/ps3200-sw">is warning</A> customers. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2"><P>Seagate got the head's up from Kaspersky Labs, which identified the virus as <A target="_blank" href=" http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?virusid=160221">Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah</A>. The virus deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2"><P>The virus, which was loaded onto the Maxtor units at a sub-contract manufacturer's location in China, is sending stolen passwords back to a server that's also located in China. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2"><P> Seagate added that it is in the process of cleaning up units that it has on hand before they're released for sale. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216372,00.asp?kc=EWKNLSTR111607STR2"><P> Seagate said it is continuing to investigate the situation, adding in a statement that it "quickly" stopped shipping units out of the factory as soon as it learned of the infection. However, in what seems to be a contradiction, Seagate also states that the units now leaving the facility have been cleaned. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D5C50599-0458-492E-B510-DC079EA587AA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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