Seagate sold hard disks with a virus

Part of party portable hard disks of Maxtor, made the American company Seagate, were for a sale with the pre-set virus, which downloaded information from the computer of user to the site, located in Beijing, The Taipei Times reports.

It was found out a virus in transmitters, produced after August, 2007. The Chinese virus steals passwords from online-games and orders them to the server, located in China. Mainly a virus is interested in the exceptionally Chinese games, however will be fastidious and by passwords for popular in the whole world online-RPG World of Warcraft.

It is reported that the infected fixed disk were temporally withdrawn from a sale, and it was recommended the proprietors of the indicated disks quickly to set an antivirus.

Also in Seagate report that to all of clients of company the full-blown 60-daily version of Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus 7.0. will be offered.