What is Zone Identifier? [closed]
问题 I often saw some files which named 'blabla.exe:Zone.Identifier' monitoring I/O with Process Monitor. The files could be seen network-drive. What is Zone.Identifier? What does the colon mean in the filename. Is the colon related the file's extended attributes? 回答1: The text after the colon is an identifier for an "Alternate Data Stream". ADS is used to store meta-information about the file. For example, the Zone identifier stores whether the file was downloaded from the internet. Some specific