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

But you do need the file to be stored locally. I don't think this attack is very serious. Downloading and opening files is already a risky maneuver.

komali2 on May 26, 2017 [–]

My understanding of the article is there isn't a "local file" that matches the name, but the very act of checking for that filename causes the hang.

Happy to be corrected.

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