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>From the Seagate website:

"If you have purchased a Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 product
since August 2007 the product may be infected with a virus[*].
Kaspersky Labs, a maker of anti-virus software, has alerted Seagate to
the existence of a virus found on at least one Maxtor Basics Personal
Storage 3200 product. Seagate has traced this issue to a small number of
units produced by a Maxtor sub-contract manufacturer located in China.
Seagate quickly put a stop ship to units leaving the facility as soon as
the company learned of the probable infection. All units now leaving the
facility in question have been cleared of the virus and units in
inventory are being reworked before being released for sale.  However,
some affected units may have been sold to the public before the problem
was detected. Seagate apologizes for the inconvenience that has been
caused as a result of this incident."

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/personal_storage/ps3200-sw



[*] Unless, of course, you run an OS that's not broken.