One of the strangest and most persistent of these is the string:
The Ghost in the Driver: Unpacking the Enigma of "win7-win8-win81-win10-r279-64bit"
October 5, 2023 Category: Tech Archaeology / Driver Deep Dive
If you’ve spent any time scouring driver repositories, obscure hardware forums, or the darker corners of a "Drivers CD" that came with a no-name USB peripheral, you’ve probably seen a file naming convention that looks like a cat walked across a keyboard.
You search the hardware ID (VID_148F&PID_2770) and you land on a forum post from 2014. The link says: "Download win7-win8-win81-win10-r279-64bit.7z"