how to hide porn from your parents.

This will also work with hiding your hacking files or anything
else you want to keep to yourself.
note: this will not keep fbi/police/anyone who knows computers
really good from finding your files, only computer illiterate
people and people who aren't really looking for incriminating
files on your computer.

Hiding The Files/Directories:
1) hide directories
2) encrypted directories
3) CDs and floppies

Hiding The Evidence:
1) browser history
2) cookies
3) tmp files
4) windows history (start->documents)

Ok, let me first start off with why you would want to do this.
You live at home with your parents and your brothers and sisters.
They all use the computer every once and awhile, but you use it
all day. You do a few things on it that you would rather keep any
of them from knowing about. ex. pornography or hacking. I'll try
to share some knowledge I've gained on keeping things secret from
people on windows 98, I don't know if this will work with any
other versions of windows (most likely they will). I will keep
this very short and to the point, there are tons of little details
that I could get into, but it would be a waste of everyone's time.
Just think to yourself how to keep them more secret and you'll be
more productive than reading 40 pages by me telling you not to
write down the location of your files on a post-it by the
monitor.

I've decided to break this tutorial down into 2 main catigories.
Hiding Files And Directories is the first, and Hiding The Evidence
is the second. If you know of any more techniques please email me
at b0iler@hotmail.com

Hiding Files And Directories

Hiding Directories
This is a key point in keeping your things secret from the other
users. You should try to make the files and directories seem as
if they are not even there. Hopfully the other users will never
even find the directory. The first thing to do is to find a place
where the other users of the computer would not likely look. I
would suggest something in C:\windows since many regular computer
users never go into this directory, so they would be less likely
to find it. I picked C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSAABAK. Now make several
directories named like: 01q1 01p2 01u3 01w5 01y3 04x2 .. the more
you create the more likely the other users will not look in the
one you use to keep your hidden stuff***. You can also make
subdirectories in each of these if you really want to make it hard
for other users to find it. Create a few dummy files in there to
make it look like they are being used.

Now you need to create the actuall hidden directory by using an
old ms-dos technique. Create a normal directory in explorer and
right click on it and select properties, under attributes select
hidden. Now you need to make this directory unaccessable from
windows by going to start->programs->ms-dos and then cd to where
you put the directory. once there type: rename and the name of
the directory you created, then press alt+255 (using the number
buttons on the right side, not the ones above the letters). and
then type in the name of your directory.

It should look like this:
rename dir dir
you will type this:
rename dir alt+255dir

What this does is renames the directory with alt+255 in front of
it. With the alt+255 in the name it makes the directory
unaccessable from windows since windows cannot handle the alt+255
character. So you will have to also make the directory hidden by
going to view->folder options..->view->under hidden files select
"do not show hidden files".

So from now on you will need to move all your sensitive files into
that directory from a dos prompt. To move them do:

move c:\path\to\file.txt c:\path\to\alt+255dir

Microsoft has alittle better way of hiding files than this alt+255
trick. go to a dos prompt and type: cd \windows\tempor~1 then dir
see nothing? try cd content.ie5 oh my, completely hidden.
They've got some directories so hidden that you can't even get to
them with a dos prompt from within windows.. you need to reboot
into actual dos to get to them. (I got this from a really good
paper at:
http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml)
Although I don't know how/if you can create hidden directories
yourself. I guess you could hide your files in
c:\windows\tempor~1\content.ie5 =)

Encrypting Files
Alright, this is a key.. although getting your directories
encrypted isn't as easy in windows as it is in linux it still is
fairly seemless. I would suggest downloading a program called
Mooseoft Encrypter - why this program? Because it's freeware, it's
simple to use, it works very well, and it can encrypt/decrypt
multiple files at once. It comes with a really good help file, so
if you have any problems with it just look there. Infact, if you
encrypt your files with it, using a password no one will ever
guess .. I see little reason to use the alt+255 method =) But if
you still want to be 100% secure I would use both methods.

100% Hidden Files (using removable storage)
ok, this is by far the best method to use, and it's fairly easy to
do. Simply get a floppy, put it in your computer and put the
files you want hidden on it. That's it. Now hide the floppy so
no one finds it. Putting crappy decoy files mixed in with the
real ones will help just incase someone does find the floppy and
checks to see what's on it. And don't name your files porn1.jpg
hackinghowto.txt sex.gif. Make sure to label it something like
'school work #3' so maybe your parents will ignore it. Don't name
it 'video games' or anything like that if you have brothers or
sisters living with you.. that's just asking for them to check it
out. any other form of removable media would work aswell, zip
disks, cdrw, tape drives.. anything.

Hiding The Evidence

Deleting The History In IE
Doing this will help keep what your up to online much more secret.
After being asked what I was doing on www.hack.co.za a few times
by roomates I decided to start deleting the history of ie. This
is very simple, you can ether delete everything in history, or
only the sites you want. To delete everything:

go to tools->internet options...->delete cookies and delete
files

To delete only the sites you want click on the history button
(it's got a sundial on it) and right click on any of the sites you
want to delete, then select delete.

(go over how to make a .bat file that will delete the history
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
TypedURLs)

tmp Files
tmp files are created by programs while you run windows. The
normal location for these files is C:\windows\temp but also check
C:\temp C:\tmp C:windows\tmp.

Deleting Form Field History
You know how if you have autocomplete on with ie and you start to
type in a form field that has the same name as one you have filled
out before how it pops up a drop down menu with all the previous
values you have put in that form? This can be pretty bad when your
parents go to google.com and see that you have been searching
for

hacking
cracking tutorials
porn
big boobs
how to steal your parents credit card

So you need to delete this history whenever you search for
something you shouldn't. You should first turn off auto complete
(it's in internetproperties/content.) then delete the history file
by (tell them how.) if I can't find out how tell them to go one by
one and delete them :/

Since I have no other place to put this I'll just throw it in
here. 0perations gave me a this great tip when hiding my evidence
of files. Lets say you want to watch a video, XXXpornogirls.mpg.
Now instead of just clicking on it and viewing it rename it to
windemo.mpg or something bland like that. Since most movie
players keep a kind of history of the last videos you viewed this
will defeat that. Also if you rename the file and put it in a
different directory after you view it other users will have no
clue what it was.

Deleting Recently Viewed Documents
Whenever you open a file that windows sees as a document it is put
in a list. To view this list go to start->documents since this is
such an open place other computer users will often see it. You
don't want xxxSEXpic01.jpg showing up on there. So lets get rid
of that list. right click on the toolbar at the bottom of
windows. Right next to your minimized applications. select
properties->start menu programs->under the document's menu press
the clear button and then ok. The list will be empty now =)

Want to just get rid of that folder? go to start->run-> type in
regedit Then go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and change NoRecentDocsMenu's REG_DWORD to 1. If it's 0 that
means it will display it, 1 will not. if u dont find it than
create a new binary value on tht right hand side and do the same
process as above.

I like to just clear it when I leave windows, to do this open up
regedit and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
and change ClearRecentDocsOnExit's REG_DWORD to 1. If it's 0
it will be disabled, 1 will be enabled