truly odd LG DVD-writer "feature"

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

Clifford told me about this, and I think you deserve to be warned.

LG DVD writers have some whacky feature in the firmware.  When the
drive is empty and closed, it tells the OS that it has a disk, and
that (simulated) disk has a program called "Bluebirds", in MS Windows
.exe format.

Recommendation: stay away from those drives.

http://www.msfn.org/board/lg-gh22ns50-bluebirds-removal-tool-t135300-page-20.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1216969

There is a firmware update to remove this feature.  But you appear to
need Windows to flash the update.  Make sure that your drive is not
empty when you boot into Windows: otherwise, I think Bluebirds will
install on that machine.  Yikes.
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