Hi, Darren,

thank you, but I know of this and already have programs which can identify 
ADS. Nonetheless, it is no fun scanning a couple of 1.5 TB for possibly 
malicious files.

As clipka did make me realize: i really don't care for ADS one way or the 
other - it might even be useful - but I hate Windows Explorers complete lack 
of support for it.

"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> TC wrote:
>> There is no easy way to access ADS in Windows Explorer. The only way to 
>> do it is use API-calls to access the ADS (to my best knowledge).
>
> You can open any stream by name. It's
>
>
> C:\Users\Darren\Desktop>echo hello >hello.txt
> C:\Users\Darren\Desktop>echo goodbye >hello.txt:goodbye.txt
> C:\Users\Darren\Desktop>type hello.txt
> hello
> C:\Users\Darren\Desktop>more < hello.txt:goodbye.txt
> goodbye
>
> Some programs try to parse the file name, but < and > don't, so it works 
> fine.
>
> Of course, yes, to get a list of what streams are out there, you need API 
> calls.
>
>> Again to my best knowledge (which is somewhat lacking in the field of 
>> file systems, admittedly), you have to scan every single directory using 
>> API-calls to determine which ADS-files are stored on your HDD.
>
> Yes. As is true of Linux's extended attributes and Mac's file forks, too.
>
>> So, if you are in the mood, you could fill a seemingly empty HDD by 
>> creating a few really huge ADS-files on  it.
>
> Yep.
>
>> Anybody wanting to write to this HDD should be ready for an interesting 
>> experience...
>
> If you're malicious and don't care if you get caught after the fact, and 
> the person you're pulling this trick on doesn't know about ADS, then yes, 
> this can happen.
>
> Now that you know, go download the free program that scans your disk and 
> finds your ADS's for you, and you don't have to worry any more. :-)
>
>> I hope linux ext2 does not do the same.
>
> I believe ext2 puts an upper limit on how much you can store in ADS. 
> Something like 64K IIRC.
>
> -- 
>   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
>   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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