A Zero-day Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file’s icon

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Microsoft to fix Windows 10 bug that can corrupt a hard drive just by looking at an icon

Microsoft says it’s planning to fix a bizarre Windows 10 bug that could corrupt a hard drive just by looking at an icon. Security researcher Jonas L first warned about the bug earlier this week, describing it as a “nasty vulnerability.” Attackers can hide a specially crafted line inside a ZIP file, folder, or even a simple Windows shortcut. All a Windows 10 user needs to do is extract the ZIP file or simply look at a folder that contains a malicious shortcut and it will automatically trigger hard drive corruption.

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XP too, so probably Vista, 7, 8 and server versions as well:

Affects as far back as Windows XP at least

But chkdsk seems to fix it, IF any actual corruption occurs (rather than just a bad flag).

FYI… The hardware.slashdot.org link triggers a “threat blocked” popup and aborted connection with Avast identifying “Win32:NtfsCorrupt-B [Expl]”

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