Is there any way I can tell whether a file has ADS associated with it? I am concerned about the nefarious uses of ADS not just saving comments for a file. If not, can a future enhancement allow such files to be found and indicated (like with a different color)?
For a quick overview, you could use a column that shows the number of streams:
function OnInit(initData) {
initData.name = 'CountADS';
initData.version = '2022-05-22';
initData.url = 'https://resource.dopus.com/t/detect-ads-for-a-file/41306';
initData.desc = 'Show the number of ADS per item';
initData.default_enable = true;
initData.min_version = '12.0';
}
function OnAddColumns(addColData) {
var col = addColData.AddColumn();
col.name = 'CountADS';
col.method = 'OnColumn';
col.type = 'number';
}
function OnColumn(scriptColData) {
scriptColData.value = DOpus.FSUtil().GetADSNames(scriptColData.item).count;
}
For an in-depth analysis, try Nirsoft's AlternateStreamView:
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Are there many things that use ADS in a way that would cause harm? I think antivirus knows to look in ADS when/where it matters these days, and it's not something I've heard is a problem (beyond doing the occasional check if something seems amiss, like a drive has less space than it should). But maybe there's something out there I'm not aware of.
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It is not harmfull (at least for me), but Dopus is adding ADS after performing SetAttr META *. Is this an expected behavior?
I expect those are empty metadata structures (just a header in one case and completely empty in the other). It's nothing to worry about.
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Note also that neither of those are the ADS stream that Opus adds; ours is called "OpusMetaInformation".
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