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A comment on NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1. Parent comment

Re:NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1 by deelowe on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:23PM (#14425714)
But you do need the file to be stored locally. I don't think this attack is very serious. Downloading and opening files is already a risky maneuver.
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Re:NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8.1 by komali2 on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:59PM (#14426726)
My understanding of the article is there isn't a "local file" that matches the name, but the very act of checking for that filename causes the hang.

Happy to be corrected.

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