[mdlug] Realtek silent data corruption

[bob dion]

Jeff Hanson wrote:
> 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?

One could only hope. Unfortunately, the corruption only seem to happened 
with large 1-2+ gig files.

BD