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Title: Ashquick scans in 4.9.1290
Post by: alanrf on November 26, 2008, 04:17:20 AM

What is the significance of :Zone Identifier being appended to the names of many files in the report window at the end of an ashquick scan in the current release?

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Title: Re: Ashquick scans in 4.9.1290
Post by: ardvark on November 26, 2008, 08:09:51 AM

Hi Alan...

Here are couple links that I hope will help explain...

http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10488

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/zoneident.shtml

This little program here will supposedly delete the stream from affected files, although, having never used it, I can't comment on its effectiveness or reliablity. Use it your own risk ;)...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/ZoneIDTrimmer.shtml

Hope this helps. :)

Best Regards...