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Re: Windows file problem
From: Blake Frantz <blake () MAIL MC NET>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:23:28 -0500
What you are seeing is a splice, I believe it was RFP that wrote a tool that searches for them on your computer, but I'm not positive. I believe tripwire for windows will also locate these such files. Blake On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 poepping () LOGICAL CM NU wrote:
I don't know if this is a hole, or the file is going somewhere else, but here is what I found. create a directory i.e c:\tempfolder go into the folder and type dir (its empty) now type echo junk >> :myfile type dir again (its still empty) now find a copy of vi.exe for windows (its all I can find that can read and write these files) once you get vi.exe type vi :myfile and presto it loads the file, with the conent of "junk" you wrote to it. next type start . and you can see that windows explorer can't see it. and if you try to delete the file it doesn't work. So if someone wanted to, they could log onto a server/workstation and create a file that fills up the harddrive (assuming that it takes up space, haven't tried), And no one would see it, or be able to delete it. Am I mising something? or is this just a flaw in windows (tested on windows nt 4.0 doesn't seem to work on windows 98, but need to try creating the file with vi.exe) thanks, matt poepping () ksni net
Current thread:
- Windows file problem poepping (Oct 07)
- Re: Windows file problem Kris Carlier (Oct 07)
- Re: Windows file problem Blake Frantz (Oct 07)
- Re: Windows file problem Simple Nomad (Oct 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows file problem Doe, John (Oct 07)
- Re: Windows file problem Flaherty, Jack (Oct 09)
- Re: Windows file problem Paul Taylor (Oct 09)
- Re: Windows file problem Kevin van Haaren (Oct 16)
- Re: Windows file problem Brian Battle (Oct 10)