full-disclosure - This crap needs to stop\

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Date: Mon Nov 28 22:04:38 2005
From: steve at unixwiz.net (Steve Friedl)
Subject: This crap needs to stop\

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