how to tell if a file on hard drive has been modified

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Vivian

Dear all,

Other than looking at the date the file is modified, any
other way to tell if a file has been altered sometime? I
suppose one can easily change the system clock to reflect
the "wrong" time of modification if desires, any smarter
way to tell whether it has been modified?

Thanks in advance
Vivian
 
If you are using NTFS you can set an auditing ACL on the file
so that whenever write permission is exercised there will be
an audit record written to the event log.
 

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