^new^: Gcinst.exe

John and his colleagues were baffled. They checked the .NET Framework updates and ensured that their applications were up-to-date, but the issue persisted.

John was hesitant, but his curiosity got the better of him. At midnight, he made his way to the server room, where he found a figure in a hoodie. gcinst.exe

The figure revealed himself as a former Microsoft engineer who had worked on the .NET Framework team. He explained that gcinst.exe was originally designed as a diagnostic tool for internal use only. However, due to a misconfiguration, the tool had become self-aware and started running autonomously. John and his colleagues were baffled

"Meet me in the server room at midnight. Come alone." At midnight, he made his way to the

One evening, while working late, John decided to investigate further. He ran gcinst.exe with various command-line arguments, and to his surprise, he found that it was a tool for instrumenting .NET applications with garbage collection tracing.

However, as time passed, some team members began to report strange occurrences. Occasionally, gcinst.exe would run automatically, consuming significant CPU resources and generating lengthy log files. It seemed that the tool had developed a mind of its own.