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#180088 - 2007-09-03 03:54 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Arend_]
Flavien Flavien Getting the hang of it Registered: 1999-07-21 Posts: 95 Loc: Geneva, Switzerland	Well, (quickly reading the doc), yes. But then this is the default parameter, so specifying 0 has no more effect than RedirectOutput("C:\~").
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#180090 - 2007-09-03 04:06 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Flavien]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Hence why I said that RedirectOutput("C:\~:~") is invalid $\:\)$
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#180091 - 2007-09-03 04:13 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Arend_]
Flavien Flavien Getting the hang of it Registered: 1999-07-21 Posts: 95 Loc: Geneva, Switzerland	For me it's valid, and works as expected. Have you tried the script? It should work with any NT-based version of Windows (not tested with Vista) and requires the C drive to be using NTFS.
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#180094 - 2007-09-03 04:55 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Flavien]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	I've tried it, and works as I explained. XP SP2 with all security updates and all my drives are ntfs.
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#180098 - 2007-09-03 05:38 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Arend_]
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	You guys are "Forking" nuts. $;\)$ _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#180099 - 2007-09-03 05:41 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Les]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	lol
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#180101 - 2007-09-03 06:00 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Arend_]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	apronk, I knew about the existence of alternate data streams, but don't know yet what they are used for. Apparently for each file, you can create numerous alternate files in the alternate file stream. Here is a quick and stupid test as described on the link you gave: Code: copy con c:\~ ^Z type c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe > c:\~:notepad.exe start c:\~:notepad.exe You will see that notepad gets launched So the path "c:\~:notepad.exe" is a very valid path. To get rid of the rubish, just delet that c:\~ file Flavien, Why do you want to do that as domain admin, putting this in a user his startup script?
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#180102 - 2007-09-03 06:05 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Witto]
Arend_ Arend_ MM club member Registered: 2005-01-17 Posts: 1896 Loc: Hilversum, The Netherlands	Witto: How about compiling your logonscript (logon.exe) and then do something like type %logonserver%\netlogon\logon.exe > C:\mytrojan.exe:start.exe and let nature take it's course $\:\)$
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#180106 - 2007-09-03 06:32 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Arend_]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Yeah (what emoticons can I use to show my bad nature?) But now let's get serious: Why would a domain admin want to do that?
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#180108 - 2007-09-03 07:19 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Witto]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	just to note, I tried it and it works just as flavien said. sadly, I also installed some stupid stream reader which broke my explorer anyhow, let it be a lesson. we don't know everything. not even you guys. ps, earth is flat. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#180115 - 2007-09-03 10:42 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Witto]
Flavien Flavien Getting the hang of it Registered: 1999-07-21 Posts: 95 Loc: Geneva, Switzerland	lol! No, you definitively don't want to run that in your logon script... Unless you want a new job. As I wrote in my first post, this is something you can try on a co-worker, perhaps to test his/her analytical skills. I've tried that once with one of my guys - he wanted a good test to show me that he was top notch. This script was my challenge. With the source script it took him half a day to understand what was going on. And many "Your disk is near its full capacity"... Good laugh, and good introduction to ADS!
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#180116 - 2007-09-04 12:56 AM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Flavien]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	weird. I used the streams.exe from sysinternals to delete the alternate streams from my downloads folder and after the deletion of some hundred streams, my free hd space went down almost 1GB!!! weird. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#180135 - 2007-09-04 05:11 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Lonkero]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Originally Posted By: Jooel I also installed some stupid stream reader which broke my explorer Is that the RedSofts Stream Viewer? If yes, unpack the installer, the uninstaller is in the package.
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#180141 - 2007-09-04 10:48 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Witto]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	too late, did already a restore with day old restore point. can only say, stupid software! a) no proper install b) no real uninstall c) data execution, huge no no d) I couldn't know, as never got to use the crap. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#180154 - 2007-09-05 09:41 AM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Lonkero]
Witto Witto MM club member Registered: 2004-09-29 Posts: 1828 Loc: Belgium	Sorry, it is not RedSofts, but JSWare Stream Viewer. Here is an explanation about the package. JSWare - Stream Viewer At the end, you can read where the uninstaller can be found. (Hey, I also removed it without seeing it's functionality )
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#180222 - 2007-09-07 03:56 AM

Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Les]

Glenn Barnas Offline

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Registered: 2003-01-28
Posts: 4401
Loc: New Jersey

Works just forking fine for me:

Code:

OZ - C:\Temp>dir x:
 Volume in drive X is PageFile
 Volume Serial Number is 1893-2D3F

 Directory of X:\

09/06/2007  09:44 PM                 1 ~
               1 File(s)              1 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  12,236,550,144 bytes free

OZ - C:\Temp>lads x:

LADS - Freeware version 4.10
(C) Copyright 1998-2007 Frank Heyne Software (http://www.heysoft.de)
This program lists files with alternate data streams (ADS)
Use LADS on your own risk!

Scanning directory X:\

      size  ADS in file
----------  ---------------------------------
Error 32 opening X:\pagefile.sys
      9402  X:\~:~

The following summary might be incorrect because there was at least one error!

      9402 bytes in 1 ADS listed

I modified the script as follows, to limit it to 100 iterations:

Code:

Break On
SetConsole("Hide") RedirectOutput("x:\~") RedirectOutput("x:\~:~") While $X < 100 @sid ? $X = $X + 1 Loop

Now that the ADS is there, what can we do with it? I can use Display to view it, but can't seem to DELete it. Interesting, and potentially dangerous if you aren't aware of it! I could see this as a simple (v-word)!

Glenn

_________________________
Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$

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#180224 - 2007-09-07 05:13 AM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Glenn Barnas]
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11628 Loc: CA	Come on Glenn this has been around for over a decade now on NT. Figured you'd have run into it or played with it some before now. There are some potential good uses for it but mostly used by Spyware, Scumware writers.
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#180240 - 2007-09-07 01:39 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: NTDOC]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4401 Loc: New Jersey	It was a rehtorical question, Doc - wondering if anyone else has any "non-devious" ideas. I have some, but having played with it from Kix for the first time, there's some limitations. The biggest is not being able to delete the AFS stream without removing the base file, although I suppose you could zero it out via redirection. I've had enough issues with this type of technology, and the related SFM with macintosh users. I can't tell you how many times they emailed the fork instead of the file, since it is exposed on the mac when connecting to a Windows/SMB server. Mac's use it to hold file identification data instead of using file extensions and associations. Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#180241 - 2007-09-07 01:45 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: Glenn Barnas]
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11628 Loc: CA	Microsoft uses it since Windows XP SP2 to block downloaded files (the box that asks you are you sure you want to run a file) You can remove it without killing the base file. Sysinternals (now Microsoft) even supplies a batch file with one of their tools to unblock all files in one fell swoop.
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#180243 - 2007-09-07 01:46 PM Re: Most annoying 1-line code ever! [Re: NTDOC]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4401 Loc: New Jersey	I'll have to take a look. What the devil are you doing up at this hour? $;\)$ G- _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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