Posted on Friday, October 26 2018 @ 11:12 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Earlier this week, news hit the web about a zip-file bug with Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The issue affects extraction using Windows' built-in zip tools, and can potentially lead to data loss. Microsoft offers the following words of advice until it rolls out a patch in November:
The advice is simple: “We recommend you fully extract the zip folder before you copy files to a new destination folder to avoid this issue.” It does, however, stop short of suggesting that a third party archive manager would be able to do the job or, heck, just uninstall the OS and have done with.
Slightly more worryingly, Microsoft also warns that users should “not attempt to Cut and Paste items from a compressed (.zip) folder” because “this may result in unintentionally deleting items that may not be recoverable.”
Via The Register
