Thread: Virus Warning - Aldi Hard drive

TY always worth a mention it looks a good buy with being 4 in one.

I recall a 2 gig USB of a well known company which had Malware and did similar on it.

The following report is on the Herald Sun site:

ALDI external hard drives available for sale as part of its "special buys" purchases have been found to contain a computer virus.
The Fission External 4-in-1 hard drive, DVD, USB and card reader device was withdrawn from sale this morning.

The hard drive is supplied to ALDI by a company called Smart IT Australia, described on its website as a global company which sells electronics products to 10 countries.
The company also supplies support for ALDI electronics products branded under the Tevion label.

ALDI is recommending consumers who have already purchased the hard drive and connected it to their personal computers to use Kaspersky antivirus software or similar to scan computers and USB storage devices to detect and remove the virus if present.
ALDI has also told customers that free antivirus checkers can be downloaded at free.avg.com.

"A full re-format will remove the virus from the 4-in-1 Hard Drive," a statement from ALDI advises.
"Customers who have purchased the product can return it to the store where they bought it to receive a full refund."
Consumers can also contact the manufacturer's technical support hotline on 1300 558 702.

A friend, who is paid obscene ammounts of money as an IT security guru, tells me that it is quite common to find various virii & trojans installed in the firmware of cards & drives - mainly stuff 'made' in Asia. So its not just Aldi with the problem, they are just being outed by the media, everyone else has either not noticed or kept it quiet.

In twelve years of building my own PC's and doing upgrades and builds for family and friends I have never had a problem, although I have been careful to buy only name brand gear from decent shops - PLE and Austin in WA and MSY here in Queensland.