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MS06-049 Causing Silent Data Corruption

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-who-wants-encryption-anyway dept.

Uncle Mike writes "It looks like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958 patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the compressed data is at risk from corruption. New files that are close to a multiple of 4K in size will have their last 4,000 bytes or so overwritten with 0xDF. Although this problem has been reported to Microsoft, as yet there appears to have been no official announcement. "

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  1. And this is NEWS? by cyberbian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    MS products have been corrupting data esp. with respect to compression for a LONG TIME. They still haven't learned from the Doublespace issues of the past... Proof of the old saw, the more things change, the more they stay the same...


    Now I bet if the compression had anything to do with DRM there'd already be a patch for it!


    'Ooooer Denis, there's a lovely bit of filth down 'ere!'...'Now we see the 'corruption' in the system!' ;)

    --
    if I claimed I was emperor just because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
  2. scandisk by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because Windows was not properly written, one or more of your disks may have errors on it.

    To avoid seeing this message again, get a Mac.