NTFS Data Streams

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Alex Ionescu

Hello everyone,

I wrote an article about NTFS Data Streams on a website and was thinking of
sharing it with more people online, I think it's somethign a lot of users
should be aware of. The problem is that I don't want it to seem like
spamming, especially since the site does offer programming competitions.

So I'm asking the readers of this newsgroup if it's better for me to post
the link or attach the whole zip file in the newsgroup.

I'd prefer the website because: - It is a central communications centre for
me where I can track people's comments easily
- All the descriptive text and help is already there, sometimes as comments
- Some people find it rude to post 100kb attachments to newsgroups, along
with HTML-formatted text.

However, I really really don't want it to seem like I'm spamming as in:

HEY I MADE THIS COOL PROGRAM AND I WANT U TO GO C IT @: .... PLZ VOTE FOR ME
I AM DA BEST"

So please advise...attachment or website?

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
 
Most people would have simply posted the link by now.
Please DO NOT post the whole website
Please DO NOT post in HTML
 
Hi,

So I shouldn't post the link nor attach it here? OK.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
 
Alex, just post the link once and let everyone else decide if it's to
be seen or not, but please don't repost the link every few days. [=:
 
Alex Ionescu said:
Here it is:

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/default.asp?lngCId=47299&lngWId=1

As I said, please do not feel obligated to vote or think this is a spam, it
is simply easier for me to receive notifications and post updates through
that site.
Click to expand...


Alex,
Thanks for posting the link. It is a very interesting article with some useful
code.
I appreciate your aim is to demonstrate the use of ADS, rather than write a full
application, but I would just like to report one/two bugs in your code-



Public Function CheckStreamCapability() ...
GetVolumeInformation "C:\", VolName, Len(VolName), VolSN, MaxCompLen, VolFlags,
VolFileSys, Len(VolFileSys)

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and
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Public Function WndProc ...
SendMessage ListView, LVM_DELETEALLITEMS, 0&, 0&
Seeker "c:\"


Please note that not everyone has a C:\ drive !
I think you should be using the equivalent of "%SystemDrive%" there instead, or
even better would be to enumerate all the drives.
I would recommend the use of GetAssociatedExecutable() instead of searching for
Wordpad.
It would also be improved by a "Stop Scanning" button, and a resizeable form.
One more thing: the words "Search finished" and "Scanning..." appear in the
status bar at the same time.
Love the rest of it though. I look forward to seeing the next updated version.
Happy Birthday to your mother!
regards
 
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