Bureau warns on tainted discs
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387202
By Yang Kuo-wen, Lin Ching-chuan and Rich Chang
STAFF REPORTERS
November 11, 2007
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive
manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse
viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the
computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand,
carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau
under the Ministry of Justice said.
The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on the
computer automatically and without the owner's knowledge to
www.nice8.org and www.we168.org, the bureau said.