(sorry for the late reply, just got back from holiday) On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:29:56PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago, > the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system > crackers to hide trojan horse code and rootkits so that system > administrators couldn't find them. :-) The only valid use of Streams in Windows I've seen was a virus checker that stored a hash of the file in a separate stream. Checking a file was a matter of rehashing it and comparing against the hash stored in the special hash data stream for that particular file. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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