One of the confidential Asus documents includes a PowerPoint presentation that details "major problems" identified by the company, including application compatibility issues.

Personal files

Our reader isn't the only one to discover strange files on Asus recovery discs. A US poster on

the Asus forums reports finding files including CVs on his recovery disc - click here to see a screengrab of the files.

A contributor to the forums at the Australian APC magazine also reports finding the same software cracker as our reader.

An Asus spokesman has apologised to the customers who found the files. "We will be investigating this at quite a high level," he told PC Pro. "Once the investigation is complete, we will ensure it doesn't happen again."

He was unable comment on how the files got on the disc.