Mismanagement of a specific file name can crash Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 by visiting a simple malicious web site.
There was a time when it was possible to crash Windows 95/98 using particular file names as image address sources, leading to a crash after simply visiting a malicious web page.
The Ars Technica site reports that this technique is still current ... with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
But instead of making the machines crazy by a double call to the console of type c: \ con \ con, it is a special file name, $ MFT, which causes the Windows 7 / 8.1 computers to lose their balls. Devices under Windows 10 seemingly not affected.
This is due to a bug in the NTFS file system that normally uses this $ MFT name for some metadata. It is blocked and ignored if it is used as a file name but when used as a folder (c: \ $ MFT \ 123, for example), the system does not know what And remains stuck on the called file, to the point of slowing down inexorably or even crashing by displaying the famous blue screen of BSoD (Blue Screen of Death). There will then be no other way out except to restart the computer.
A malicious web page calling for example an image file in the form above could in principle (it also depends on the browser used but Internet Explorer is a good candidate) to crash the computer accessing it, with different consequences, progressive slowdown Or direct crash.
Ars Technica indicates that Microsoft has been alerted to this malfunction but has not yet indicated when a fix would be offered.
Source : Ars Technica
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There was a time when it was possible to crash Windows 95/98 using particular file names as image address sources, leading to a crash after simply visiting a malicious web page.
The Ars Technica site reports that this technique is still current ... with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
But instead of making the machines crazy by a double call to the console of type c: \ con \ con, it is a special file name, $ MFT, which causes the Windows 7 / 8.1 computers to lose their balls. Devices under Windows 10 seemingly not affected.
This is due to a bug in the NTFS file system that normally uses this $ MFT name for some metadata. It is blocked and ignored if it is used as a file name but when used as a folder (c: \ $ MFT \ 123, for example), the system does not know what And remains stuck on the called file, to the point of slowing down inexorably or even crashing by displaying the famous blue screen of BSoD (Blue Screen of Death). There will then be no other way out except to restart the computer.
A malicious web page calling for example an image file in the form above could in principle (it also depends on the browser used but Internet Explorer is a good candidate) to crash the computer accessing it, with different consequences, progressive slowdown Or direct crash.
Ars Technica indicates that Microsoft has been alerted to this malfunction but has not yet indicated when a fix would be offered.
Source : Ars Technica
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