Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

[Fintan]

I just came across this and thought it might be of interest:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...46246&from=rss

this makes this years matel toy scandals look like a joke.

[dibl]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

Wow. Another good reason to run Linux, I'd say!

[Snowhog]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

Why waste your valuable time accumulating viri or trojans on your system. Now, if you are one of the (un)lucky ones, you can purchase a brand new hard drive with them pre-installed! :-X

Does buyer beware come to mind?

[goforthis]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

isn't technology great for ms users

[timberwolf753]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

isn't technology great for ms users

It sure is its sure is.

And that is why I use a non-windows OS on a hard drive i know nothing about .

[MoonRise]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

That's kind of scary there. Hmmmm, not a problem here though .

[Qqmike]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

Another reason to always do your own partition/format on any new HDD.

[MoonRise]

Re: Watch out where you buy your hard drives...

Another reason to always do your own partition/format on any new HDD.

I agree.