In addition to the advice from Wes you may find this helpful:

Streams v1.56
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...s/Streams.mspx

John

Mike Hoban wrote:
> Hello, I am looking for advice on how to locate and remove Alternate data
> Streams from jpeg files. They during in my virus scan, but no where else. I
> fear they are causing my system to slow down considerably.
> thanks
>