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The utility of such a feature relative to its security, integrity and astonishment costs can be debated, however. ADS in NTFS has long been a subject of pain, f
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
The utility of such a feature relative to its security, integrity and astonishment costs can be debated, however. ADS in NTFS has long been a subject of pain, for instance, though I'm unaware of its present status.
- gnu8 11y agoI think it is chiefly used by malware developers at this time.
- ADSstreamsthrow 11y agoIt's used widely by popular applications (Adobe / Microsoft software products).
- mst 11y agoWhich are, in my experience, more ransomware than malware.
- makomk 11y agoTo be fair, it's also used by DRM schemes and those aren't technically malware as such.
- kennu 11y agoI agree that they could probably be deprecated and removed nowadays. There used to be a transition time when people ran old Mac OS applications on OS X.