full-disclosure - This crap needs to stop\

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Date: Mon Nov 28 22:30:49 2005
From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: This crap needs to stop\

Steve Friedl to Michael Holstein:

> > 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.

Also, some drives are bundled with backup (and other "useful") 
software, and some of those save a few cents per unit by shipping the 
wares on the drive, rather than pressing CDs, then including them in 
the boxes, having to replace missing/damaged ones, etc...

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald