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Specifically, if the file is corrupted, in what way is it corrupt? I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.
by Conasg 2y ago
Specifically, if the file is corrupted, in what way is it corrupt? I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.
- tomesco 2y agoIt likely contains a bug but is an uncorrupted file. Corrupted to me means the file was changed or modified in a way from it's intended state and likely won't run anymore.
- rvba 2y agoI wonder if the * (asterisk / star) character in its name isnt causing the issue.
- alex_f_k 2y agoStar is part of a command to delete any file matching a wildcard `C-00000291*.sys` meaning "starts with 'C-00000291', has any kind of text after that and ends with '.sys'". Actual files appear to differ for every machine
- codetrotter 2y agoThis exchange reminds me of a time many years ago where I was reading a computer magazine and they talked about “Windows 9x” and I thought they were referring to some version of Windows that I had never heard of. Only a couple of years later did I understand that it was simply a shorthand for talking about Windows 95 and Windows 98. Edit: And looking now at Wikipedia apparently it also covers Windows Me. (The Millennium Edition that came between Windows 98 and Windows XP.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x
- sokoloff 2y agoAlso the reason that Microsoft skipped from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Too much risk of apps testing the first 8 characters of the Windows version against "Windows 9" and concluding they were running on 95/98 rather than 9.
- hulitu 2y ago> I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred. NGO, i think, discovered that parsing random data can lead to interesting results.l
- zmatt 2y agoCrowdstrike has published some technical details: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-h...