I work for Seagate. Here are some more facts about what happened: - a small number drives were infected (I don't know the number) by a Chinese sub-contractor - all the drives still in the factory and inventory have been reworked and are free of the virus - we're providing a free 60-day version of Kasperski Lab 7.0 to those who bought a drive that may have been infected - the virus affects the following games (all Chinese except World of Warcraft): WSGame 91.com QQ Woool rxjh.17game.com TianLongBaBu AskTao Perfect World (Wanmei Shijie) World of Warcraft
- Here is the Maxtor Customer Support website that has the link to the free Anti-Virus software.
- The drives were infected accidentally from a contract worker's MP3 player - Maxtor products are manufactured by Seagate, which bought Maxtor about a year and a half ago.
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I work for Seagate. Here are some more facts about what happened:
- a small number drives were infected (I don't know the number) by a Chinese sub-contractor
- all the drives still in the factory and inventory have been reworked and are free of the virus
- we're providing a free 60-day version of Kasperski Lab 7.0 to those who bought a drive that may have been infected
- the virus affects the following games (all Chinese except World of Warcraft):
WSGame
91.com
QQ
Woool
rxjh.17game.com
TianLongBaBu
AskTao
Perfect World (Wanmei Shijie)
World of Warcraft
- Here is the Maxtor Customer Support website that has the link to the free Anti-Virus software.
http://support.seagate.com/downloads/ps3200/
- The drives were infected accidentally from a contract worker's MP3 player
- Maxtor products are manufactured by Seagate, which bought Maxtor about a year and a half ago.
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