Article 5D166 Beware This Text String That Can Crash Windows and 'Corrupt' Your Drive

Beware This Text String That Can Crash Windows and 'Corrupt' Your Drive

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Brendan Hesse on Lifehacker, shared by Andrew Cout
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Hackers are exploiting a strange bug that lets a simple text string corrupt' your Windows 10 or Windows XP computer's hard drive if you extract a ZIP file, open a specific folder, or even click on a Windows shortcut. The hacker adds the text string to a folder's location, and the moment you open it, bam-hard drive...

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