A simple file naming bug can crash Windows 8.1 and earlier by Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols.
From the post:
In a blast from the past, a Russian researcher has uncovered a simple bug in the NTFS file system that consistently crashed Windows Vista to 8.1 PCs.
Like the infamous Windows 95/98 /con/con bug, by simply entering a file name with “$MFT” the file-system bug locks up Windows at best, or dumps it into a “blue screen of death” at worse.
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The bug won’t deliver malware but since it works in URLs (except for Chrome), humorous HTML links in emails are the order of the day.
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