diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 855dee5e..51e14881 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-02/01/2006 - 1.13.0 - Lots and lots and lots of fixes and enhancements.
+24/02/2006 - 1.13.0 - Lots and lots and lots of fixes and enhancements.
 
 	- Temporarily disable use of the legal ansi character checking in
 	  libntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_names_collate() pending a proper fix at some
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@
 	- Deal with missing syslog function by making code conditional on
 	  presence of syslog.h header file (DOS/djgpp).  (Christophe)
 	- Avoid clash with existing constants (OSX).  (Christophe)
+	- Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags.  Windows
+	  copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we
+	  have to cope with it, too.  Thanks to a Pawel for reporting the
+	  problem.  (Anton)
 
 10/10/2005 - 1.12.1 - Minor fix to location of mount.ntfs-fuse and mkfs.ntfs.
 
diff --git a/libntfs/attrib.c b/libntfs/attrib.c
index b6533756..3f1cc9d5 100644
--- a/libntfs/attrib.c
+++ b/libntfs/attrib.c
@@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ s64 ntfs_get_attribute_value(const ntfs_volume *vol,
 		return 0;
 	}
 	/* Complex attribute? */
-	if (a->flags) {
+	/*
+	 * Ignore the flags in case they are not zero for an attribute list
+	 * attribute.  Windows does not complain about invalid flags and chkdsk
+	 * does not detect or fix them so we need to cope with it, too.
+	 */
+	if (a->type != AT_ATTRIBUTE_LIST && a->flags) {
 		ntfs_log_error("Non-zero (%04x) attribute flags. Cannot handle "
 			       "this yet.\n", le16_to_cpu(a->flags));
 		errno = EOPNOTSUPP;
@@ -380,6 +385,13 @@ ntfs_attr *ntfs_attr_open(ntfs_inode *ni, const ATTR_TYPES type,
 	}
 
 	a = ctx->attr;
+	/*
+	 * Wipe the flags in case they are not zero for an attribute list
+	 * attribute.  Windows does not complain about invalid flags and chkdsk
+	 * does not detect or fix them so we need to cope with it, too.
+	 */
+	if (type == AT_ATTRIBUTE_LIST)
+		a->flags = 0;
 	cs = a->flags & (ATTR_IS_COMPRESSED | ATTR_IS_SPARSE);
 	if (!name) {
 		if (a->name_length) {