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Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan
From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:12:56 -0500 (EST)
Doesn't everyone format new hard drives?
Well, I certainly don't; indeed, most of the new disks I get are IDE, and I don't know of any way to reformat those at all. I do, however, ignore the data on them, which, from the sound of this, would be enough to defend against this threat. (Based on the names, the malware in question probably wouldn't run on my systems anyway, but that's a separate line of defense.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents montreal qc ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Paul Ferguson (Nov 11)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Gadi Evron (Nov 11)
- RE: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Larry Seltzer (Nov 12)
- RE: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Nick FitzGerald (Nov 12)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan der Mouse (Nov 12)
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- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Juha-Matti Laurio (Nov 13)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Dude VanWinkle (Nov 14)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Juha-Matti Laurio (Nov 14)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Dude VanWinkle (Nov 15)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Juha-Matti Laurio (Nov 14)
- RE: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan David Harley (Nov 14)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Juha-Matti Laurio (Nov 15)
- Re: Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan Juha-Matti Laurio (Nov 17)