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Don't most all businesses and governments disable autorun? and if not, ARE THEY INSANE?

But of course propaganda must have its way, next week it's Putin's turn again right? where we blame him for something random.
Or is it iran? or how about we make something up where china on behest of putin installs spyware for iran?
Stay tuned.

posted by : W.-, 14 November 2007 Complain about this comment
I BET There Were Millions.

BUY COMPUTER FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT & FIND OUT COMMUNIST COUNTRY, IN VIRTUAL ECONOMIC WAR IF NOT THIRD WORLD SPONSORED IRRATAINT KNOWS YOUR FACTS, DELETES & VERY EMBARESSING e.g. criminally implicating, INFO. THIS IS AS GOOD AS WHEN U.S. GOVERNMENT GAVE GERMANS ALL OUTGOING u.s. SHIPPING ROUTES, dates & MANIFESTS IN ww.

HEEY yOU- yOU wANNA tax bREAK?I celar you dooor & properties for cheapost.

T. VONDRASHEK

posted by : HOMELAND_Ultie, 13 November 2007 Complain about this comment
*hurm*

That it's come down to a factory issue might be news. I take it for granted that hdd's with pre-installed OS's and software have nasty things lurking that allow them to phone home willy nilly. Some might call that XP or Vista...

Every new hdd that passes through my hands gets a complete format and a sector scan before software one is loaded for a client or myself. If Johnny Lunchbox wants his BestBuy Media Center P.O.S., all set up and ready to go, there's not much cause in whining about everything that could (and will) go wrong sooner or later, including mysterious network traffic which (he) perceives as rather odd things happening while playing Solitaire. Numb to the nuts these people be, and eminently deserving of all bad things.

posted by : vark!, 13 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Microsoft to blame

Gotta love Windows! Insecure by design. Who else would make a system that would automatically run something without asking from a disk that you inserted/installed without asking?

posted by : jbo5112, 13 November 2007 Complain about this comment

Seagate hard drives turn into spy machines

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