In a throwback to the ’90s, NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7, 8.1

[Moltuae]

In a throwback to the ’90s, NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7, 8.1

Article Link: https://arstechnica.com/information...-bug-lets-anyone-hang-or-crash-windows-7-8-1/

Those of you with long memories might remember one of the more amusing (or perhaps annoying) bugs of the Windows 95 and 98 era: certain specially crafted filenames could make the operating system crash. Malicious users could use this to attack other people's machines by using one of the special filenames as an image source; the browser would try to access the bad file, and Windows would promptly fall over.

It turns out that Windows 7 and 8.1 (and Windows Vista, but that's out of support anyway) have a similar kind of bug.

 

[Markverhyden]

Reminds me of a customer I had who thought it was funny to name folders with really silly, long names. But could not understand why he could not copy them.