Hey Kids! Rootkits!

Here's a company selling an ActiveX control that hides folders and files from the whole system. This is exactly what got Sony in trouble with their DRMed CDs. This will be used by rootkit makers to piggyback on existing application's hidden folders. There is no way this is a good thing.

• Hide critical folders and files in your application

Ensure the failure free work of your application by hiding its critical files and folders, thus making them inaccessible. Just implement this ActiveX control in the application you are developing, choose any files or folders you want to be hidden and press Enable Hiding button. This will turn on the hiding engine and it will conceal the files and folders from viewing, accessing, searching and deleting completely.

• Hide the folder, leaving its contents visible

Hide My Folders ActiveX provides the possibility to hide any folder, leaving all of its contents accessible. This is very important when you need your information to be invisible, though accessible, having the opportunity to add, delete and do other work with files, that are located in this particular folder.

• Hide folders with all of its contents

Using profound methods of Hide My Folders ActiveX it's easy to hide any folder together with its contents just by defining full path to it. The specified folder becomes invisible, impossible to view, access, search and delete. Even when trying to access it using command line, you will get a system message saying this folder does not exist. To add some new files to this folder, or edit the existing ones, just unhide it for a short period of work, and then hide it again.

Plus, just on a philosophic level, if something is on my machine, I want to see it.