Windows might be partly responsible for handling corrupted files poorly. According to this other post, the offending file was filled with NULs: https://news.y

Windows might be partly responsible for handling corrupted files poorly. According to this other post, the offending file was filled with NULs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009740 Such a file will not have the right signature and checksum to be considered a valid executable. Either these were not checked, or whatever was doing the checking responded poorly and left the system in a state that's difficult to recover.