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here except that they can write data to an alternate data stream”, said Russ Cooper, editor of Windows NT security watcher NTBugtraq.com, who moderated a discussion of the possible dangers posed by alternate data streams in 1997. That discussion concluded there was very little danger posed by the exploitation of the file streams system.“This is highly theoretical and not all that new”, said Cooper, who pointed out that to infect a computer, the virus would have to infect the main stream of the program. That would make it visible to current anti-virus programs.