Good solution for protecting image files in folder

[eluser]esset[/eluser]
[quote author="laytone" date="1266288014"]I feel stupid for not thinking of this earlier. you could just Create a blank index.html file and put it in your images folder...[/quote]

That wont protect me from people direct-linking the images though, right?


http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/ban...heft.shtml didn't work, the images still render in /images/. I wonder if it somehow conflicts with the mod_rewrite rule?

I guess I could do http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/pro...ages.shtml, but I would like not to edit all the places I have linked to these images on the site



Thanks for helping out