Shayne Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 You're welcome, and thank YOU for doing this. It's an interesting idea and I'll keep watching it!I, too, was curious what would happen if you plugged a flash drive, protected this way, into a Linux machine.Maybe one could encrypt the file and then apply your program to the resulting file, as another layer of protection.--JorgeAI'm glad you are interested in my work I add encryption yet, but right now I'm working on adding a Start Menu type feature too the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Does the GUID/CLSID still show as part of the folder name, like when I do it by hand. Or could you use an .ini file to give the folder a different display name (hiding the clsid from potential googlers).You know what I mean, like how the desktop.ini can give off a name from a string located in a DLL.From my "Documents" folder.[.ShellClassInfo]LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayne Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) Does the GUID/CLSID still show as part of the folder name, like when I do it by hand. Or could you use an .ini file to give the folder a different display name (hiding the clsid from potential googlers).You know what I mean, like how the desktop.ini can give off a name from a string located in a DLL.From my "Documents" folder.[.ShellClassInfo]LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770I tried using a desktop.ini file, however I couldn't get it to make any changes to a folder. Maybe there's something I'm missing?I've also added a start menu like feature to the program. Edited September 10, 2013 by Shayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) Here is my new trick to hide ugly GUID file names in pseudo locked folders. With your desktop.ini and your customized string resource name, set the folder attributes to system hidden.attrib +s +h B:\Locker.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}to unhide again.attrib -s -h B:\Locker.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}Assuming you are removing their ability to rename the folder, this should create one more hoop for script kitties to jump throughFYI, this wasn't possible in XP, leading to all those complaints in the various threads on google, but this should work on W7 and above. Edited September 10, 2013 by MrJinje Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) You're welcome, and thank YOU for doing this. It's an interesting idea and I'll keep watching it!I, too, was curious what would happen if you plugged a flash drive, protected this way, into a Linux machine.Maybe one could encrypt the file and then apply your program to the resulting file, as another layer of protection.--JorgeAI'm glad you are interested in my work I add encryption yet, but right now I'm working on adding a Start Menu type feature too the program.No need to add encryption to your program. The security-conscious among us already know that they can encrypt their files , what's cool is the file-locking and -hiding features that you're facilitating!--JorgeA Edited September 10, 2013 by JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayne Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 Here is my new trick to hide ugly GUID file names in pseudo locked folders. With your desktop.ini and your customized string resource name, set the folder attributes to system hidden.attrib +s +h B:\Locker.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}to unhide again.attrib -s -h B:\Locker.{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}Assuming you are removing their ability to rename the folder, this should create one more hoop for script kitties to jump throughFYI, this wasn't possible in XP, leading to all those complaints in the various threads on google, but this should work on W7 and above.I just tried that and got it too work. Now the CLSID is not visible Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 (edited) On second look, there might be an other method that works on XP and possibly W7. Found on an old zenworks post at novell.com Untested by me, report back, don't forget to change to the correct guid.http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16652.htmlREGEDIT4[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{763370C4-268E-4308-A60C-D8DA0342BE32}]"NeverShowExt"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CF8EF420-3DF3-11d0-AC35-00C04FD9338A}]"NeverShowExt"="" Edited September 11, 2013 by MrJinje Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTS Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 If you were too plug this into a linux computer, I am not sure what would happen. Obviously the program would not run. But I'm not sure if linux would recognize the NTFS permissions or not. From my understinad, some Linux releases support NTFS permissions. Which completly destroys the reason for using Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayne Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 (edited) On second look, there might be an other method that works on XP and possibly W7. Found on an old zenworks post at novell.com Untested by me, report back, don't forget to change to the correct guid.http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16652.htmlREGEDIT4[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{763370C4-268E-4308-A60C-D8DA0342BE32}]"NeverShowExt"=""[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CF8EF420-3DF3-11d0-AC35-00C04FD9338A}]"NeverShowExt"=""Okay thanks. I'll take a look at this. Edit: The CLSID does not show up on XP even without trying to hide it. Edited September 12, 2013 by Shayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayne Posted September 14, 2013 Author Share Posted September 14, 2013 Does anybody have Windows 8? It would be nice if somebody could test this program on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 I will throw this one on the table also (just to keep things as together as possible):http://reboot.pro/topic/18573-hideandprotect-ntfs/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shayne Posted September 22, 2013 Author Share Posted September 22, 2013 I will throw this one on the table also (just to keep things as together as possible):http://reboot.pro/topic/18573-hideandprotect-ntfs/jaclazVery interesting. I didn't know that was possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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