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Re: [Full-disclosure] This crap needs to stop\
- To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] This crap needs to stop\
- From: Steve Friedl <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:04:31 -0800
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:56:55PM -0500, Michael Holstein wrote:
> >Here's an interesting one. Peripherals manufacturer I-O Data has shipped
> >a series of nice-looking portable hard drives in the 40GB to 120GB range
> >- carrying the Backdoor.Win32.Tompai trojan on them.
>
> More interesting is *why* there would be a "master image" on a new
> expansion hard drive in the first place.
I just bought a couple of external USB-based hard drives, and the
preformatted filesystems had an autorun with the logo of the vendor:
I think it was strictly so that the Western Digital icon showed up
when in Explorer. As far as I can tell, the drive was otherwise blank.
Steve
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