Upon a warning from the security team from Kaspersky Labs,
Seagate has now issued a 'mea culpa' in which is advising those who have
purchased a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 hard drive since August 2007
to check them, if they haven't already, for viruses. The infected drives come
from a sub-contract manufacturer located in China and are 'equipped' with
Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah, a molar virus that searches for passwords to online
games and sends them to a server that is, coincidentally in China. Most
anti-virus programs have already been updated and will find the virus easily.
Just be sure to scan the drive.