Re:The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf]
by secabeen on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:19AM
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locate is fast because there's a cron job that does the heavy lifting of scanning and indexing the filesystem. Without that, find is about as fast as PS.
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Re:The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf]
by throwaway7645 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:17PM
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Yes and it puts it in a database updated regularly for fast access. I'm not sure why this isn't default on Windows. How often does one need to search for a random file in the OS?