In your case I feel the garbage values are entered into the Inode
table, though no such files exists.
The intention of pendrive developer was wrong. In this case I feel it is
a complete hardware problem, No role of OS.
Once I got the same type of output, but that time problem was in the
harddisk due to overheating or bad file system (was an embedded device).
On 13 April 2010 21:34, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In case people are wondering what crap was loaded onto the disk then
> here is what ls looks like
>
> /media/2022-62E3$ ls
> !.# ).+ ?.? ?.? ?.? 1.3 9.; A.C i.k i.K q.s Q.s y.[ y.{
> !.# ).+ ?.? ?.? ?.? 1.3 a.c A.C i.k i.K q.s Q.s y.[ ° ? ?.?
> !.# ).+ ?.? ?.? ?.? 9.; a.c A.C i.k i.K q.s Q.s y.{ ° ? ?.?
> !.# ).+ ?.? ?.? 1.3 9.; a.c A.C i.k i.K q.s y.[ y.{ ° ? ?.?
> !.# ).+ ?.? ?.? 1.3 9.; a.c A.C i.k i.K Q.s y.[ y.{ ° ? ?.?
> !.# ).+ ?.? ?.? 1.3 9.; a.c A.C i.k q.s Q.s y.[ y.{ ° ? ?.?
> !.# ?.? ?.? ?.? 1.3 9.; a.c A.C i.K q.s Q.s y.[ y.{ ° ? ?.?
> ).+ ?.? ?.? ?.? 1.3 9.; a.c i.k i.K q.s Q.s y.[ y.{ ° ? ?.?
> r...@ram-laptop:/media/2022-62E3$
>
> tried opening these files with gedit / sudo gedit etc i get error
> messages , tried the less command and that too gives me error
> messages.
>
> In case you are wondering why i am curious, its because i want to know
> how come some software can fool an OS (in this case linux) into
> believing something that it is not. Is there a chance for malware to
> be loaded on to be exploited ??
>
> ram
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