Friday 26 February 2010

Secure your files in a JPEG file

So, you might be looking to hide some files ( or some explicit stuff :P ) somewhere deep down in the hard disk so that no person other than you would want to access it. You might be looking for some 3rd party softwares or tools to do that work. Instead you can follow these steps to secure them in an easy way.
For this, you will only need to download WinRAR. You just need to have a little knowledge about Command Prompt and have WinRAR installed.

Ok, lets begin…

1. Gather all the files that you wish to hide in a folder anywhere in your PC (Ex: make it in C:\stuff).
2. Now, add those files in a RAR archive (e.g. secret.rar). This file should also be in the same directory (C:\stuff).
3. Now, look for a simple JPEG picture file (e.g. logo.jpg). Copy/Paste that file also in C:\stuff.
4. Now, open Command Prompt (Go to Run and type ‘cmd‘). Make your currnet working directory as C:\stuff.
5. Now type: “COPY /b logo.jpg + secret.rar output.jpg” (without quotes) - Now, logo.jpg is the picture you want to show, secret.rar is the file to be hidden, and output.jpg is the file which contains both.
6. Now, after you have done this, you will see a file output.jpg in C:\stuff. Open it (double-click) and it will show the picture you wanted to show. Now try opening the same file with WinRAR, it will show the hidden files which you want to secure.
That's it and you are done.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

wow.. dint knew that..
i tried this out, and worked like a charm..
thanks mate..

Saurabh said...

Nice info buddy.
really worked for me..
keep posting