This Windows 10 Bug Corrupts Your Hard Disk On Opening A Zip File Or Shortcut

Be careful while opening files you download from the Internet. A nasty new Windows 10 bug has been discovered and it is said to corrupt the hard disk simply by unzipping a ZIP file, opening a folder, or looking at a shortcut icon.

NTFS VULNERABILITY CRITICALITY UNDERESTIMATED–There is a specially nasty vulnerability in NTFS right now.Triggerable by opening special crafted name in any folder anywhere.‘The vulnerability will instant pop up complaining about yuor harddrive is corrupted when path is opened pic.twitter.com/E0YqHQ369N

The folks over at Bleeping Computer further tested the bug in a variety of ways. They found that you can trigger NTFS hard disk corruption by merely pasting the special command in the address bar in a browser.

Nice find by @jonasLyk :cd