URGENT: WinZip Passwords

[LordFortius]

I am going on vacation for 3 weeks and before I go I want to protect some of my more sensative documents. I don't need anything fancy, just something to keep someone from casually walking into my office and opening something that I don't want them opening. I was trying to use winzip to zip all this stuff up and put a password on it, but it doesnt seem to work. Even when I set a password it still allows me to extract the file w/o asking for one! Can someone help me out, or at least point me in the direction of another utility that I could protect my stuff with?

 

[ed1564]

upload it on a webserver or burn it to a disk

 

[snakesnfrogs]

why not just set a BIOS password?

 

[Viper GTS]

Compress all the documents/folders into a zip file, & then rename the zip file to another extension (.doc, .xls, .avi, whatever).

Bury the file somewhere where it won't be stumbled on.

Viper GTS

 

[LordFortius]

I can't set a bios password because my bios doesnt have that feature. However, I may use viper's idea.

 

[atom]

First check to see if you actualy did the procedure correcty. If it is password protected you should still be able to look through the archive but at the end of the filename there should be a "+" meaning it is password protected. I messed it up a few times. You have to password protect the file before you add any files to the archive. Otherwise any file in the archive added before password protection is applied will not need a password to be extracted.