File Hiding

Hey guys.. this is my second article so far..
I'm gonna tell u what i do to hide my 'top-secret' ( :P ) files..
a year ago i came up with the idea of opening a winzip session,
adding my files, n saving the thing as sthgxx.dll(xx is a number) n putting it in c:windows,
n i have lots of vip files, so i had many sthgxx
ex: kerMel66.dll kerMel93.dll Kermel28.dll etc....... so that they will be really easy to find...
this actually worked.. n my files were safe......
some months ago i had the idea of opening the zip in notepad and adding a character,
then when i open it i get an error, i remove the character and it'll work,
fortunately i tried it on a COPY of a vip file, cz it didnt work,
n a week later i read a post on HBH saying that notepad doesnt display everything,
so it just cropped the file to a smaller one..
10 minutes ago, the idea just popped into my head to try the thing with a HEX editor!!
i opened a pic in a HEX editor, the last HEX was D7,
i changed 7 to 8, saved it n opened it, it displayed nothing but an error!!
then i undid the change and saved it , n it worked :D:D
then i tried it with one of my DLL-fake-files, n it worked :D
I guess i can just write a small app later for that,
it would HEX open the file, change sthg and save the change in a database,
then with a "recover" button,gets the original value and changes
it back to the normal thing and renames the file.........


Icecool