[GRLUG] save hidden files in windows

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:42 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Although if you take a file named "blah.txt" and rename it
>> "$blah.txt$", interesting things happen. Not as interesting as they
>> used to be, though.
>
> Such as?

My recollection was off. It's not "$whatever$", it was
"$sys$whatever", and it wasn't an intrinsic piece of Windows. It was
part of First 4 Internet's XCP system. (Otherwise known as the Sony
Rootkit)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far.aspx

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