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Any website can crash your Windows 7 or 8 PC with these four characters

June 12, 2017   Security News

A website with an image directory that uses $MFT in its name is enough to crash older PCs.

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Just because Windows 7 is close to eight years old doesn’t mean you still can’t find ridiculous bugs that can crash your PC.

Russian-language site Habrhabr.ru recently published one such bug that apparently causes problems if you simply visit a website, as first noticed by Ars Technica. The problem also affects Windows 8 and Vista PCs, but Windows 10 PCs are unaffected.

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