Saving zips
 

I have the same problem, which I have solved by creating a folder with some fancy name, placing the zips there and renaming the file extensions from ZIP to DBF. You can also put on the system (hidden) attribute, but that does not help against the computer literates. Hope this can give You some ideas.

I don't know how you can hide the files from someone who knows what to look for but what I do is create a folder called system_files (note the underscore so it doesn't interfere with anything important) set its attrbutes to "hidden" put it in the root directory (c:\ ) and then encrypt the files using any of the ones listed at:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/se...fwencrypt.html

Or search on www.tucows.com for encryption software

With some of them you can set the icon to be something inconspicuous and, if you rename the file before you encrypt it it doesn't raise any suspicions ( at least not yet!) anyway they are all good and some of them are compatible with winzip.

Just remember your password!

if you must keep it on a shared machine, winzip encryption is easy to use. zip it twice, rename the first zip with a dummy extension then zip the dummy file using AES 256 bit encryption with a long password. it helps prevent listing the contents.

if you admin the machine you share with people create seperate user accounts and don't allow access to your account (listing, indexing, reading, ect.) of your directory.

thats only half the problem though. you probably leave traces through out your system (ex. registry) of what you've acutally been looking at. look for cache cleaning and anonymizing software.