Recently I come across something “nice” while ‘cruising’ on the internet. This trick reminds me of some cool ‘viruses’, also something that many teenagers will find it really cool. I’m talking about hiding a file in another file, usually a jpg file (a picture).
So, lets say that you a have a very important file and you want to hide it. Thus curious eyes will never figure out where you keep your private stuff.
Ok. How do I do that?
1. Create a new folder on your hard drive and name it accordingly:
Ex: ‘C:/FOLDER’ where C is your HDD partition and FOLDER is your new folder.
2. Copy the desired files in this new folder. Lets say that your hidden file will be: “example.zip” and the hiding file will be “flower.jpg”.
3. Now open your Command Prompt window by Start - Run or using this keyboard shortcut ‘Windows Key’ + ‘R’, type cmd in the ‘Run’ window and press ‘OK’.
4. In the Command Prompt window input the path to your previously created folder – in this case ‘FOLDER’.
Example:
‘C:/FOLDER’ (without the quotes as usually).
Then write the following command:
- ‘copy /b flower.jpg + example.zip hidden.jpg’ where flower.jpg and example.zip are the input files and hidden.jpg is the output file (final product).
Voila!
If you open the hidden.jpg file with your picture viewer software you’ll see the flower.jpg file. But, if you open the hidden.jpg file with WinRAR (for example) you’ll see the example.zip contents.
Now you know! And you better reconsider opening anonymous pictures.
Isn’t that cute? …
P.S.
I didn’t put an example material on this post because… after I’ve just said, I’m sure you probably don’t download it.
