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Re: Idiocy... said by fAcEtIOUs:They blame Microsoft because the operating system let them break the directory structure. That is the same philosophy hackers use. MS should have prevented my exploit from happening - so that is their fault and not mine for creating the exploit. Actually--- that's not so much the case in this particular issue.
As I understand the issue, Kaspersky hasn't done anything that is proprietary or non-standard. From what I've read, their method uses a documented feature of the NTFS filesystem--- ie one that's supposed to work fine. However it turns out that NTFS backwards compatibility with CHKDSK wasn't properly tested by MS. Since this feature hasn't been widely used before (if it all) the issue hadn't come up.
So, basically, they're both right. Yes, the problem has arisen out of a feature in the NTFS that isn't backwards compatible with CHKDSK. MS's fault there...
... But since Kaspersky is using it, and breaking customers applications, Kaspersky is also at fault in the eyes of the user. I'm betting Kaspersky will have to change their programs before MS does....
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