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Guys I'm so confused and a little freaked out over this.

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Guys I'm so confused and a little freaked out over this. I was writing on a text file and copy and pasting something about 5 times in a row. I'm using Windows 8.

All of a sudden the 6th time I pasted, this gets attached to the pasted sentence
>Blah blah blah blah blah blah
>Blah blah blah blah blah blah
>Blah blah blah blah blah blah
>Blah blah blah blah blah blah
>Blah blah blah blah blah blah UNewegg2500/6

With "UNewegg2500/6" attached at the end. What the fuck? The sentence I was posting had NONE of those words or numbers. Where the fuck did "UNewegg2500/6" come from? Is this some NSA botnet shit infecting my PC? Didn't even have jewegg opened, no way I could've accidentally copied it.
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>>59836287
>UNewegg2500/6

Maybe the system clipboard has a history.
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>>59836287
nope possibly a flipped bit
need to get you some of that ECC Ram
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>>59836330
was also thinking this. super rare occurrence, never had it happened to me before but that's the only explanation.
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>>59836341
its literally a thing, google owns all the flipped bit domains relating to their software

its really interesting to look into though if i were you i would run a memtest just for giggles
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>>59836287
It's to late anon.
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>>59836341
>>59836330
Flipped bit cut off the null term and op got the garbage after it in RAM. Lol
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>>59836405
basically which leads me to believe it can be fixed with a cold boot or diagnosed with a memtest
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>>59836356
>>59836405
4 sticks of 8GB. Less than 2 years old. Wonder if they'll allow me to RMA all of them.
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>>59836414
I'm willing to bet if you could see arbitrary memory where the clipboard is, that it would confirm it. Op should dump his memory to file then search it for newegg and see what's before it.
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>>59836419
They're not broken.flipped bits just happen sometimes. Usually doesn't affect anything.
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>>59836341
No it's not. You can easily write software that inserts things into the clipboard.
And the chance of flipping bits like this is astronomically small. Anon was writing a (presumably ascii, or this is even less likely)
So anon pasted "Blah \n" a couple times. If the last paste has a bit flipped then you'd go from a zero byte to 2^n where n is the bit that was flipped (bounded by 2^8 - 1 of course because this is a byte). The only 1 bit flip characters if you go from a null byte that would be visible is a space or @.

It's far more likely anon has some software in his computer that's so shit it randomly pastes ads into his clipboard and does it incorrectly. Or maybe thats a coupon code and it's perfectly fine, just sent at an inappropriate time.
And who knows why that happened? Could be a race condition.
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>>59836356
you and most people here probably are already aware of this defcon video, but maybe a few aren't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7mnSstKGs

apparently smartphone ram is notorious for flipping bits due to the relatively extreme conditions they tend to operate in compared to properly-cooled desktop setups
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