RE: [inbox] Re: Windows covert channel

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

> You are probably thinking of ADS(Alternate Data Streams).
>
> jazper
>
>
> > I seem to remember in the dim reaches of my memory a covert
> channel in
> > the Windows file system where you could paste one file at
> the end of
> > another without it being detectible when you edited the
> orginal file.


It may be that he is referring to an exe packer as used to attach a trojan
to a legitimate exe aka whackamole.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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