Use WinRAR to hide confidential files

WinRAR is a common compression/decompression program. In addition, we often use WinRAR as an encryption software. Setting a password when compressing files can protect data. However, there are a lot of cracking software dedicated to WinRAR passwords. Although setting a long password can prevent brute force cracking to some extent, but there are some other tips-if the other party does not treat your files as other irrelevant files, it will be much safer. Is there any way for others to turn a blind eye on our confidential files? Here are two tips for you to use WinRAR to disguise your confidential files.

When someone double-click an MP3 file (or JPG file) with the mouse, it will automatically call software such as Winamp to play the song (or call the Image Browsing software to open the picture). Everything looks normal, no one will think of your confidential files in it. If you want to see the secret, you can change *. MP3 (or *. JPG) to *. rarfile, and click the file to see the hidden file. Note: Do not add a password to this. rarfile. Otherwise, after you change your name to a. MP3 file (or. JPG file), you will not be able to play a song or display an image, which may cause suspicion.

Step 1: place the file to be encrypted and an MP3 Song (or jpg image) in the same folder. in the Windows Resource Manager window, select the file to be encrypted and the MP3 file (or jpg image file ), right-click and choose add file to compressed file from the shortcut menu.

Step 2: Enter the file name in the "compressed file name and Parameters" dialog box, and select "Storage" in "compression mode ", click OK to generate. RAR compressed file.

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Step 3: click the file and use WinRAR to open it. Right-click the file and select "Sort mode" in the pop-up menu, no matter which one you choose, you only need to put the MP3 file (or jpg image file) in the compressed file at the beginning of the rarfile. Finally, change the file name suffix of the generated compressed file to. MP3 (or. JPG.
Pack and compress the file to be hidden into a rarfile using WinRAR, and prepare an image in GIF format. If you do not have one, you can use the image viewer to convert the image format. Next we will use an editor that supports hexadecimal files, such as UltraEdit 32. Our goal is to hide the rarfile In the GIF file. When someone clicks this GIF file, they will see an image, so that they can hide the confidential file. If you want to view the secret, you can change the disguised GIF file to a rarfile. Click it to start WinRAR and you will see the hidden file. Note: Do not intelligently add an access password to the rarfile to be hidden; otherwise, the hidden GIF file cannot be properly displayed, you cannot use WinRAR to open the rarfile after it is renamed.

Step 1: Prepare a GIF file. We recommend that you do not set the size of the GIF file to be too small. Otherwise, the size of the file will increase after you add the rarfile. The size of the file is very large for a GIF file with few pixels, it will also cause suspicion from others.

Step 2: Use UltraEdit 32 to open the rarfile containing the confidential file. You will see the hexadecimal code of the file, and press Ctrl + A to select the code of the entire rarfile, press Ctrl + C to copy the code.

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Step 3: Open the GIF file with UltraEdit 32, press Ctrl + End to the End of the GIF file code, before the last 2nd hexadecimal numbers, press Ctrl + V to insert the code of the copied rarfile. Click "save" in the "file" menu to merge the GIF and rarfile.