Arledge wrote:
How did returning the drives remove the VCD. My impression is that once your system is infected with the VCD there is no way to remove it short of reloading your operating system. I will certainly never buy another Western Digital external hard drive. The arrogance of a company putting an unremovable device on one’s computer without permission or warning is pretty scarey.
Just so you know, the VCD is not on your computer. It’s on the drive connected to your computer. It’s a small, locked partition on your external drive used to provide password protection, etc. It just shows up on your computer because it’s a partition designed to look like a virtual CD. You’ll notice that if you disconnect the drive from the computer, the VCD disappears. Nothing has been infected on your computer. The only software that loads onto your computer is SmartWare, and that can be uninstalled.
