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Specifically, if the file is corrupted, in what way is it corrupt? I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.

It likely contains a bug but is an uncorrupted file. Corrupted to me means the file was changed or modified in a way from it's intended state and likely won't run anymore.

Crowdstrike has published some technical details: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-h...

> I’m fascinated by how this issue occurred.

NGO, i think, discovered that parsing random data can lead to interesting results.l

I wonder if the * (asterisk / star) character in its name isnt causing the issue.

Star is part of a command to delete any file matching a wildcard `C-00000291*.sys` meaning "starts with 'C-00000291', has any kind of text after that and ends with '.sys'". Actual files appear to differ for every machine

This exchange reminds me of a time many years ago where I was reading a computer magazine and they talked about “Windows 9x” and I thought they were referring to some version of Windows that I had never heard of.

Only a couple of years later did I understand that it was simply a shorthand for talking about Windows 95 and Windows 98.

Edit: And looking now at Wikipedia apparently it also covers Windows Me. (The Millennium Edition that came between Windows 98 and Windows XP.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x

Also the reason that Microsoft skipped from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Too much risk of apps testing the first 8 characters of the Windows version against "Windows 9" and concluding they were running on 95/98 rather than 9.

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