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  • Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Sun Jan 17 09:37:00 2021
    I am glad that I don't use Win 10 yet.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bug-corrupts-your-hard-drive-on-seeing-this-files-icon/

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    --- OpenXP 5.0.48
    * Origin: (2:221/1.58)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 18 07:13:29 2021
    On 17 Jan 21 09:37:00, August Abolins said the following to All:

    I am glad that I don't use Win 10 yet.

    The problem apparently affects versions of Windows going back to XP.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Nick Andre on Mon Jan 18 08:10:00 2021
    Hello Nick!

    ** On Monday 18.01.21 - 07:13, Nick Andre wrote to August Abolins:

    The problem apparently affects versions of Windows going back to XP.


    Yes.. I noticed that at the end of the article. :( But the
    payload still requires some form of delivery in an archive that
    the OS then unpacks. I don't have the habit of opening up
    unsolicited .zip archives arriving in email.

    But a cleaverly crafted .exe install program could deliver or
    create one.


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    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.48
    * Origin: (2:221/1.58)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 18 08:24:06 2021
    On 18 Jan 21 08:10:00, August Abolins said the following to Nick Andre:

    The problem apparently affects versions of Windows going back to XP.

    Yes.. I noticed that at the end of the article. :( But the
    payload still requires some form of delivery in an archive that
    the OS then unpacks. I don't have the habit of opening up
    unsolicited .zip archives arriving in email.

    Neither do I... and there are daily backups taken of everything here if anything got hosed. The proper hot-image backup sets; I haven't had to re-install Windows for a lonnnnnng time now.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Phillip Taylor@1:275/201.30 to Nick Andre on Sat Jan 23 20:47:58 2021
    On Mon 18-Jan-2021 7:13a, Nick Andre@1:229/426.0 said to August Abolins:

    I am glad that I don't use Win 10 yet.

    The problem apparently affects versions of Windows going back to XP.

    Nick

    I missed part of the conversation. What issue is it please?
    --- CNet/5
    * Origin: 1:275/201.0 (1:275/201.30)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Phillip Taylor on Sat Jan 23 22:28:47 2021
    On 23 Jan 21 20:47:58, Phillip Taylor said the following to Nick Andre:

    I am glad that I don't use Win 10 yet.

    The problem apparently affects versions of Windows going back to XP.

    I missed part of the conversation. What issue is it please?

    Opening a location using the UNC and dollar-sign notation and a reference to an NTFS metadata attribute causes Windows to mark the file system as "dirty". The next time the OS reboots, Chkdsk engages and may or may not cause data corruption.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)