[mdlug] Realtek silent data corruption

[Jeff Hanson]

On 7/31/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> > From: Mathew Enders
>
> > I think that after reading it that the data inside the packets was
> > corrupted not the packets themselves and that is how it passed the
> > TCP/IP check.  Some else asked the same question in the comments.
>
>  With TCP connections, the data has a checksum, too. But it's possible
> for certain patterns of data corruption to still pass the check. And
> if the driver at the sending end corrupts the data (reading it in from
> the sending application) before it puts it on the wire, there's nothing
> the receiver can do to detect that.

Maybe I'm missing something but logical deduction seems to conclude
that this is an improvement:

1.  It's a Windows-only issue.
2.  The corruption could make transferred applications inoperable.
3.  The data from Windows PCs includes a much higher percentage of
malware than non-Windows PCs.
4.  Corruption of transferred applications from the affected systems
would cause a reduction of malware in general.

Logical?