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Beware This Text String That Can Crash Windows and ‘Corrupt’ Your Drive – Lifehacker Australia
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…
Hackers are exploiting a strange bug that lets a simple text string corrupt your Windows 10 or Windows XP computers 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 folders location, and the moment you open it, bam hard drive issues.
Or so you might assume when you see a restart to repair hard drive errors warning appear in Windows 10. Odds are good that your data is actually fine, but youll still have to run…
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