Re: Windows file problem

[Blake Frantz <blake () MAIL MC NET>]

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