Hide files within other files - No software needed.

[Serpent257]

Excellent tutorial. Good to see a non-clown on youtube for a change. Pity about the small desktop though, but you worked through it.

[Mrjustacabron]

wow,,,this is very informative and by that I mean scary......is there a way that I can check wether the files I receive, download, transfer, etc. have any files hidden within it?? thank you much for your vid....

[bwhatnow5]

How do you make it so that whenever I open test.txt audacity or whatever program I used starts as well?

[systemerror11]

@bwhatnow5 exactly like the description says.

start ./test.txt:audacity.exe

[TheVirtualWebmaster]

Sooo... Assuming i would like to make a joke of one of my freinds. And i would like to send the compressed file? How do i do that then? I was thinkithing of sending an .exe or some other thing through e-mail or msn.

[systemerror11]

wont work. gotta be an NTFS drive, so maybe an NTFS formatted thumb drive would be acceptable?

[zahircool]

watch my video for the simplest technique to hide folder or file

[systemerror11]

Wow. Install a program and click hide. Pretty informative, I learned a lot!

/sarcasm

So what happens if you are using a guest account? You cant install the program, so what then?

How would you hide a file or folder in that scenario?

[Vjol1]

@systemerror11 Man. Does it work the same if I want to hide 2 folders inside and exe or another file?

[systemerror11]

@Vjol1 it should, never tried.

[j0hn420]

nvm answered my own question looking at one below me xD

[j0hn420]

i had a trojan that was able to hide itself inside of other files then delete itself from the other file after running once. I could never figure out how it did (my programing skills arnt so l33t xD) but im guessing this isnt what i was looking for. This wont work if "test.txt" was given to someone else right?

[rgtmot]

cool.. But can the txt-file be mailed to another computer and still work?

[systemerror11]

No. You lose the stream if you email it. They will however survive across network shares and disk copies as long as the destination is also NTFS.

[littlewolf92]

cool way to do it. Isn't there any way at all to make the executable file run once the text file is opened? I tried creating a bat file with the start commmand line and also encrypt it into the text file but it wont work

[systemerror11]

you could make a batch file to execute another set of files if you wanted but not if you fork the batch itself.

[Mikey9Bars]

any way to "extract" the file if i hid it and deleted the original?

[systemerror11]

yes, pandora recovery for example has software specifically designed to do so. Im sure theres others as well.

[zachary123459]

Doesnt it detect this when running a disk defragment? As a fragmented file? I reamber that it did I belive.

[systemerror11]

I think you can defrag ADS but I believe it depends on the OS and some may require additional software or patches to do so.

Good point! I'll try it out when I get a chance! Thanks!

[zachary123459]

i have window's xp and did ADS a while back and evetyime i do disk defrag it comes out as a file that cant be defraged. not big deal to me. just thought interesting.:D

[diuliamachouhei]

How this actually works? Why the file size won't change?

[baronblod2003]

Nice. Worked smooth. But it seems to not work with jpg files though. But still, nice.

[froginablender1]

why is your command prompt text green?

mines white and i like green better

[systemerror11]

Its green because I like that old school look and set it that way. I'll make a vid on how to change it if you want... but just right click on the top bar and select properties.

[deadj1m]

Cool stuff, can you maybe put simple instructions in the sidebar? it's hard to see what you type.

[systemerror11]

you got it. You actually inspired another video from this. Check it out.

[oticram]

Kewl,

does that show up as an error in the file system if you run a chkdsk or something like that?

[systemerror11]

Nope. MS has nothing on the OS or resource kits for detecting this. It will only work on NTFS file systems though. If you push a file with a stream on it to a FAT file system the stream (attached file) dies, not the original file.

[StarongBahd]

Nice vid. I used to know how to do this a while back, but forgot. Thanks to you, I won't forget it now.

[NoRogeR]

you always crack me up 5/5