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This Tutorial is for newbies.
How to hide porn from your parents.
This will also work with hiding your hacking files or
anything else you want to keep to yourself.
note: this will not keep fbi/police/anyone who knows
computers really good from finding your files, only
computer illiterate people and people who aren't really
looking for incriminating files on your computer.
Hiding The Files/Directories:
1) hide directories
2) encrypted directories
3) CDs and floppies
Hiding The Evidence:
1) browser history
2) cookies
3) tmp files
4) windows history (start->documents)
Ok, let me first start off with why you would want to do
this. You live at home with your parents and your brothers
and sisters. They all use the computer every once and
awhile, but you use it all day. You do a few things on it
that you would rather keep any of them from knowing about.
ex. pornography or hacking. I'll try to share some
knowledge I've gained on keeping things secret from people
on windows 98, I don't know if this will work with any
other versions of windows (most likely they will). I will
keep this very short and to the point, there are tons of
little details that I could get into, but it would be a
waste of everyone's time. Just think to yourself how to
keep them more secret and you'll be more productive than
reading 40 pages by me telling you not to write down the
location of your files on a post-it by the monitor.
I've decided to break this tutorial down into 2 main
catigories. Hiding Files And Directories is the first, and
Hiding The Evidence is the second. If you know of any more
techniques please email me at b0iler@hotmail.com
Hiding
Files And Directories
Hiding
Directories
This is a key point in keeping your things secret from the
other users. You should try to make the files and
directories seem as if they are not even there. Hopfully the
other users will never even find the directory. The first
thing to do is to find a place where the other users of the
computer would not likely look. I would suggest something
in C:\windows since many regular computer users never go
into this directory, so they would be less likely to find
it. I picked C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSAABAK. Now make several
directories named like: 01q1 01p2 01u3 01w5 01y3 04x2 .. the
more you create the more likely the other users will not
look in the one you use to keep your hidden stuff***. You
can also make subdirectories in each of these if you really
want to make it hard for other users to find it. Create a
few dummy files in there to make it look like they are
being used.
Now you need to create the actuall hidden directory by
using an old ms-dos technique. Create a normal directory in
explorer and right click on it and select properties, under
attributes select hidden. Now you need to make this
directory unaccessable from windows by going to
start->programs->ms-dos and then cd to where you put the
directory. once there type: rename and the name of the
directory you created, then press alt+255 (using the number
buttons on the right side, not the ones above the letters).
and then type in the name of your directory.
It should look like this:
rename dir dir
you will type this:
rename dir alt+255dir
What this does is renames the directory with alt+255 in
front of it. With the alt+255 in the name it makes the
directory unaccessable from windows since windows cannot
handle the alt+255 character. So you will have to also make
the directory hidden by going to view->folder
options..->view->under hidden files select "do not show
hidden files".
So from now on you will need to move all your sensitive
files into that directory from a dos prompt. To move them
do:
move c:\path\to\file.txt c:\path\to\alt+255dir
Microsoft has alittle better way of hiding files than this
alt+255 trick. go to a dos prompt and type: cd
\windows\tempor~1 then dir see nothing? try cd content.ie5
oh my, completely hidden. They've got some directories so
hidden that you can't even get to them with a dos prompt
from within windows.. you need to reboot into actual dos to
get to them. (I got this from a really good paper at:
http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml)
Although I don't know how/if you can create hidden
directories yourself. I guess you could hide your files in
c:\windows\tempor~1\content.ie5 =)
Encrypting Files
Alright, this is a key.. although getting your directories
encrypted isn't as easy in windows as it is in linux it
still is fairly seemless. I would suggest downloading a
program called Mooseoft Encrypter - why this program?
Because it's freeware, it's simple to use, it works very
well, and it can encrypt/decrypt multiple files at once. It
comes with a really good help file, so if you have any
problems with it just look there. Infact, if you encrypt
your files with it, using a password no one will ever guess
.. I see little reason to use the alt+255 method =) But if
you still want to be 100% secure I would use both methods.
100%
Hidden Files (using removable storage)
ok, this is by far the best method to use, and it's fairly
easy to do. Simply get a floppy, put it in your computer
and put the files you want hidden on it. That's it. Now hide
the floppy so no one finds it. Putting crappy decoy files
mixed in with the real ones will help just incase someone
does find the floppy and checks to see what's on it. And
don't name your files porn1.jpg hackinghowto.txt sex.gif.
Make sure to label it something like 'school work #3' so
maybe your parents will ignore it. Don't name it 'video
games' or anything like that if you have brothers or
sisters living with you.. that's just asking for them to
check it out. any other form of removable media would work
aswell, zip disks, cdrw, tape drives.. anything.
Hiding
The Evidence
Deleting The History In IE
Doing this will help keep what your up to online much more
secret. After being asked what I was doing on
www.hack.co.za a few times by roomates I decided to start
deleting the history of ie. This is very simple, you can
ether delete everything in history, or only the sites you
want. To delete everything:
go to
tools->internet options...->delete cookies and delete files
To delete only the sites you want click on the history
button (it's got a sundial on it) and right click on any of
the sites you want to delete, then select delete.
(go over how to make a .bat file that will delete the
history
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
TypedURLs)
tmp
Files
tmp files are created by programs while you run windows.
The normal location for these files is C:\windows\temp but
also check C:\temp C:\tmp C:windows\tmp.
Deleting Form Field History
You know how if you have autocomplete on with ie and you
start to type in a form field that has the same name as one
you have filled out before how it pops up a drop down menu
with all the previous values you have put in that form?
This can be pretty bad when your parents go to google.com
and see that you have been searching for
hacking
cracking tutorials
porn
big boobs
how to steal your parents credit card
So you need to delete this history whenever you search for
something you shouldn't. You should first turn off auto
complete (it's in internetproperties/content.) then delete
the history file by (tell them how.) if I can't find out
how tell them to go one by one and delete them :/
Since I have no other place to put this I'll just throw it
in here. 0perations gave me a this great tip when hiding my
evidence of files. Lets say you want to watch a video,
XXXpornogirls.mpg. Now instead of just clicking on it and
viewing it rename it to windemo.mpg or something bland like
that. Since most movie players keep a kind of history of the
last videos you viewed this will defeat that. Also if you
rename the file and put it in a different directory after
you view it other users will have no clue what it was.
Deleting Recently Viewed Documents
Whenever you open a file that windows sees as a document it
is put in a list. To view this list go to start- >documents
since this is such an open place other computer users will
often see it. You don't want xxxSEXpic01.jpg showing up on
there. So lets get rid of that list. right click on the
toolbar at the bottom of windows. Right next to your
minimized applications. select properties->start menu
programs->under the document's menu press the clear button
and then ok. The list will be empty now =)
Want to just get rid of that folder? go to start->run->
type in regedit Then go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and change NoRecentDocsMenu's REG_DWORD to 1. If it's 0
that means it will display it, 1 will not. if u dont find
it than create a new binary value on tht right hand side and
do the same process as above.
I like to just clear it when I leave windows, to do this
open up regedit and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and change ClearRecentDocsOnExit's REG_DWORD to 1. If it's
0 it will be disabled, 1 will be enabled
Credits
by
Pradeep
rockystone@rediffmail.com
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