Re: Paragon Ntfs For Windows
Teodolinda Mattson
Malware threats are a universal problem, and are constantly evolving. Because of that, not only do you need protection, you want to use a malware detector and remover that is consistently updated against new threats.
As many Mac owners think of their device as virus-resistant, malware developers take advantage of that mindset. There is good news though! Macs already have a fairly robust system to ward off malware threats.
The Gatekeeper program, which is on every Mac, blocks any programs from running, unless they have digital approval from Apple. Gatekeeper is a great first line of defense against malware. Apple is quite dedicated to helping their users stay malware free, and has some handy articles about it.
In general, if you only download apps from the Mac App Store, you should be safe from malware. A lot of malware results from downloading pirated software or media, or downloading apps from untrustworthy sites.
This guy showed up on a few different websites in 2019, including one commonly used to download comic books, as well as showing up in Google search results. Disguised as part of an Adobe Flash Player update, this sneaky malware would install either rogue software or a malicious Safari browser extension.
This malware exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Gatekeeper. A zero-day vulnerability is a newly discovered security flaw, known to the developers but as yet without a patch or solution. Hackers love to exploit these types of flaws, and did just that with the OSX/Linker malware.
Paragon Software Group collected statistics from a random sampling of 50,000 Microsoft exFAT/NTFS for USB users over the month of July 2018. This data included Android users working with external storage media formatted as exFAT, NTFS, HFS+, and FAT32. The participants accessed partitions from external storage media on Android systems 6.0 and above, from Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S8, and Samsung Galaxy Note 8 devices. Collected statistics included the file system format accessed and duration of operation, the type of file operations performed (copy, move, delete, et al), types of volumes accessed (picture, video, music), and other factors.
Statistics revealed that NTFS by far remains the most popular file system by Android users. Out of 44 percent of users mounting volumes, 61.5 percent accessed NTFS-formatted volumes, 30 percent FAT, eight percent exFAT, and only half a percent read or wrote data to HFS+ drives. Android users primarily access games or multimedia files, such as pictures, audio, and video, while the most frequent operations included copying, moving, and deleting files.
The trend shows the popularity of NTFS file system almost by a factor of two compared to all other file systems combined. The collected statistics also demonstrate that the majority of on-the-go Android users require access to external storage media for multimedia files. In addition, statistics show that the popularity of Android TV is growing. Compared to the previous quarter, in 2018 four percent more Android users utilized the app to access files larger than 40GB, primarily HD and 4K video files from external storage drives mounted directly on Android TV and set-top boxes. Microsoft exFAT/NTFS for USB allows Android users to watch high-definition and ultra high-definition videos of any size using previously incompatible removable media formatted in Windows and macOS file systems, including NTFS, FAT32, or HFS+.
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Maybe, if Sysinternals were NOT bought by Microsoft, Mark Russinovich might have decided to release the old Winternals driver as Freeware, soon or late, but releasing the driver is evidently against current MS policies, so this makes this event even more unlikely.
Yep, that's the idea about the "for the record" innuendo, the post was made trying to add some related information, specifying the limitations of the linked apps, but don't be so sure about the actual differences between Apples and Oranges:
It it based on ntfs-3g and plain 98 DDK. It is a protected mode (Windows only) driver. So far I have been able to integrate ntfs-3g into VxD driver and successfully recognize and mount NTFS partition. Drive letters for NTFS partitions are assigned and disk size is displayed. But that's all I have done so far.
The problem is that the documentation from DDK is not good at all. It lacks examples. Ioctl16 documentation is missing. There are many secret parameters which are not listed but used extensively in VFAT.
Stan Mitchell's coverage of the Windows 95 file system environment is an introduction, with an emphasis on introduction, to the topic. As I learned while developing our full-featured NTFS for Windows 98 driver environment, the book lacks much of the information necessary to develop a production file system driver.
It uses VXD driver with original NTFS driver from windows 2k and it seems to me as reverse engineered form of communication. NTFS read and write is surely possible via VXD driver. Not only theoretically but also practically.
I want to use NTFS filesystem for better video capturing. Therefore i need application at good level and so much reliable as possible. Winternals/Sysinternals is not one of them - disc activity was slightly affected by it, but it shows that this kind of operations are at least possible.
However, when you speak of system wide NTFS support, you are talking a far more complex job. In order to natively support a different file system, and have explorer, amongst all Windows applications be able to write to NTFS as if it were nothing, you'd have to implement the support at the kernel level. Again, when you speak of file systems in the kernel, being closed source makes this a whole hell of a lot more difficult.
All of the GUI in Windows, including the applications, deal very little with the actual disk access of the operating system. How it works is that a basic write command in the code is sent (such as C++ or VB). When compiled, this code speaks to the APIs for that programming language, which are specifically written differently for each operating system to inferace with the kernel and other lower level code. It is THAT code, that then deals with the physical disk, and therefore, the file system. So the changes would have to be made at that level to pass up the benefits to all applications, and even Windows Explorer, which is just a basic Windows program, set as shell in boot.ini.
My guess as to why no one has bothered to implement this in Windows 98 is because it never really crossed paths that much when Windows NT began to rise up, and now, there's far too few Windows 98 active users where anyone would take the initiative, time, and energy required to make this undertaking.
Why anyone would want to subject a win-98 system to NTFS is beyond me. To take this even further, I make it a point to install XP on FAT-32 volumes (yes, even LARGE volumes with 4kb cluster size because it's a myth that cluster size has to increase ridiculously with volume size). It's very refreshing to have a dual-boot DOS7 / XP system and be able to browse your XP file system from a pure command shell.
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