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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 08:42

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MagiKHanD

If you’re looking to hide files on your PC hard drive, you may have read about ways to encrypt folders or change the attributes on a file so that they cannot be accessed by prying eyes. However, a lot of times hiding files or folders in that way requires that you install some sort of software on your computer, which could then be spotted by someone else.
I’ve actually written quite a few articles on how you can hide files and folders in Windows XP and Vista before, but here I’m going to show you a new way to hide files that is very counter-intuitive and therefore pretty safe! Using a simple trick in Windows, you can actually hide a file inside of the JPG picture file!

You can actually hide any type of file inside of an image file, including txt, exe, mp3, avi, or whatever else. Not only that, you can actually store many files inside of single JPG file, not just one! This can come in very handy if you need to hide files and don’t want to bother with encryption and all that other technical stuff.

Hide File in Picture

In order to accomplish this task, you will need to have either WinZip or WinRAR installed on your computer. You can download either of these two off the Internet and use them without having to pay anything. Here are the steps for creating your hidden stash:

•Create a folder on your hard drive, i.e. C:\Test and put in all of the files that you want to hide into that folder. Also, place the image that you will be using to hide the files. in.

•Now select all of the files that you want to hide, right-click on them, and choose the option to add them to a compressed ZIP or RAR file. Only select the files you want to hide, not the picture. Name it whatever you want, i,e. “Hidden.rar”.

•Now you should have a folder that looks something like this with files, a JPG image, and a compressed archive:

•Now here’s the fun part! Click on Start, and then click on Run. Type in “CMD” without the quotes and press Enter. You should now see the command prompt window open. Type in “CD \” to get to the root directory. Then type CD and the directory name that you created, i.e. “CD Test“.

•Now type in the following line: “copy /b DSC06578.JPG + Hidden.rar DSC06578.jpg” and press Enter. Do not use the quotes. You should get a response like below:

Just make sure that you check the file extension on the compressed file, whether it is .ZIP or .RAR as you have to type out the entire file name with extension in the command. I have heard that some people say that they have had problems doing this with a .ZIP extension, so if that doesn’t work, make sure to compress to a .RAR file.
And that’s it! The picture file will have been updated with the compressed archive inside! You can actually check the file size of the picture and see that it has increased by the same amount as the size of the archive.
You can access your hidden file in two ways. Firstly, simply change the extension to .RAR and open the file using WinRAR. Secondly, you can just right-click on the JPG image and choose Open With and then scroll down to WinRAR. Either way, you’ll see your hidden files show up that you can then extract out.

That’s it! That is all it takes to hide files inside JPG picture files! It’s a great way simply because not many people know it’s possible and no one even thinks about a picture as having to the ability to “hide” files. Enjoy!

IMPORTANT NOTE,Read carefully:I'm not responsable 4 any loss of data OR other things.Enjoy!

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 08:58

Author:

Legend

great thread>>>> these i dont know before ..... thanks but>> last part of this thread gone completely over my head>>>> full toss ball gone completely over my head>>>

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 08:59

Author:

MagiKHanD

You're welcome Legend.

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 13:59

Author:

Greenstreet

Good post, but this could give people ideas, if you get my drift

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 17:59

Author:

dj555

just a quick question,your tut about hiding files in photos if you clicked on the photo would it then show the other files hiden inside it?

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 18:05

Author:

MagiKHanD

@ twentyfourty "You can access your hidden file in two ways. Firstly, simply change the extension to .RAR and open the file using WinRAR. Secondly, you can just right-click on the JPG image and choose Open With and then scroll down to WinRAR. Either way, you’ll see your hidden files show up that you can then extract out."

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 18:16

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dj555

the only reason im asking is if you hide an exe file behind a photo when you click on the photo it would start up the exe.this could lead to ppl uploading photos with crap virus exes

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 18:18

Author:

MagiKHanD

But I think a photo can also be scanned.

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 18:36

Author:

Greenstreet

twentyfourty wrote:

the only reason im asking is if you hide an exe file behind a photo when you click on the photo it would start up the exe.this could lead to ppl uploading photos with crap virus exes

To true, they hide viruses in all sorts of ways, mp3, wmv, I have not come across any jpg on ET YET, never no after this thread

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 18:47

Author:

Grind3r

im with you green...

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 19:05

Author:

MagiKHanD

I made this topic for educational purposes ONLY.

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 09:39

Author:

Big_A_Little_A

Have heard of this getting done before,know I know how.
many thanks for a nice tutorial

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:21

Author:

sohalboyz

NICE INFO
THANKSSS

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 03:09

Author:

upendi

Thanks for this cool tutorial,

And for those who said that--the tutorial can help turds to hide some virus in a picture and spread it--they are wrong. This tutorial has made me conscious and i will be ever more vigilant.

Cheers

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 09:06

Author:

cachito

Thanks good TUT

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