How to hide .exe file behind txt file

Procedure is quite similar to the above one.

c:\> type c:\windows\notepad.exe > hello.txt:note.exe

Here notepad.exe is copied to hello.txt:note.exe

Now when you copy hello.txt, note.exe is also copied along with it.

Hide text file behind text file

In the NTFS file system When you create a new file , one unnamed default stream is created to store all data written to the file.Since NTFS file system in Windows 2000 or above supports Alternate Data Streams,you are allowed to create additional streams for text file. All data stored in the addition streams will be hidden and no one will be able to read the data. This may be useful when you would like to hide some sensitive info from being read by others when sharing the file to public.

What is Alternate Data Stream??

In simple words it is a facility to hide data behind data.

This can be used to hide malicious virus files behind other text or graphic files.

How to hide text file behind a text file??

Here is an example to hide text file behind a text file.

1> Create a text file using Command Prompt.

Go to Run, type cmd. Change the directory if you want.

Type
echo  
etricks.txt:hidden

Here hidden is alternate data stream created along with etricks.txt

2>To enter data using that hidden data stream type

notepad etricks.txt:hidden

You will see a popup saying “Cannot find the C:\etricks.txt:Hidden.txt file”. Do you want to create a new file?”.

click yes.

3> Type anything you want and press ctrl+s.

4> Now go to C drive. There won’t be any such file. You will see etricks.txt only.

5> To view data in hidden file go to cmd and type

notepad etricks.txt:hidden

and now you can see the data in etricks.txt:hidden.txt

Watch Banned and Blocked Videos on YouTube

Sometimes watching videos on YouTube you come across some videos which is blocked or banned for access in your country, that might be due to some personal problem or copyright issues but you want to watch that video well is their any way well the answer is yes there is a very easy trick to access blocked and banned YouTube Videos

Follow the below steps :

1. Go to YouTube.com

2. Now open the blocked video and it will say something like this video cannot be played in your country.

3. Now you will see its URL in the address bar, we have to make a small change to that to access that video in your country.

4. Suppose the URL is something like below .:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyzabcd

5. So you can see in the above URL I have bold the small part you have to replace that part with v/ now the URL becomes something like below .:

www.youtube.com/v/xyzabcd

6. So now simply access that blocked URL easily and watch unlimited outside country videos.