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Re: Hiding files in Windows

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From: Tobias Sasse
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 20:40
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Thomas A <crexes@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to really hide files and directories in a Windows
> OS - and I don't mean just changing the file property to "hidden".

Some ways to hide files:
- Hooking Win32 API
- Hooking Native API
- Filtering file systems (FS Filter Driver)

See www.rohitab.com for an API hook example. See www.sysinternals.com
for Native API hooks and FS Filter Driver examples.

Tobias
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