It's a little late now, huh guys?

It seems that Seagate has been shipping hard drives which may contain viruses that will steal your World of Warcraft login info since August of 2007. If you have one of these drives, make sure to thoroughly check it out before logging in, and always keep your antivirus software up to date.

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.

The effects of this virus are minimal. According to Kaspersky the virus is the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah, a molar virus that searches for passwords to online games and sends them to a server located in China. It also deletes other molar viruses and can disable virus detection software. All of the known games affected are Chinese with the exception of World of Warcraft.

Read more at the press release. [Story via Razorwire]