I almost guarantee the damage is done immediately once the browser tries to read...

jokr004 on May 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7 or 8....

I almost guarantee the damage is done immediately once the browser tries to read that file.. The reason it took a moment for your system to crash is because it took a moment for whatever the process was that actually hung to try to read from disk.