ADS Scanner Help Needed

[Tangles]

I just noticed that in the MISC TOOLS section, there is an ADS scanner. I thought I'd try it out and see if it found anything on my system, and it did.

It found a bunch of .jpg files and gave results like this:

E:\<directory path>\<image name.jpg> : Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc (10120 bytes)

WTF is this all about?

[LonnyRJones]

Hi Tangles

You do understand alternate data files are used by windows ?
Can be used by malware to though.
Some information can be found >
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/105763

[PepiMK]

The ADS scanner already hides some default ADS types imho. Suggestion: use FileAlyzer to open such a file, on its "Streams" tab, you can view the contents of this ADS stream. If it's about images (only search results I found for that name btw), it may just be a picture thumbnail or similar...