Critical NTFS bug in Windows 10 can corrupt HDD/SSD filesystem

[DelJo63]

According to www.guru3d.com:

A disk can be corrupted simply by accessing the $ i30 NTFS attribute​

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The article comes with the MASSIVE CAVEAT:

DO NOT try to replicate/attempt what we write here in this article as it's very dangerous. A new vulnerability in Windows 10 has been detected, in specific if you have an NTFS formatted HDD/SSD. --- causes hard drive errors that immediately corrupt the file system.​

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Traditionally I would cite the original artical here -- but not this time. I choose to protect the naive and adventurers.

 

[Toffy]

I certainly hope this gets fixed super soon. Please for our sake stay with this. I am brand new to your site and came to learn.

 

[DelJo63]

Firefox 85.0.1 contains fix

Prevent access to NTFS special paths that could lead to filesystem corruption.​

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HOWEVER, this is just for the browser and other access paths to this issue still remain