Help on Map Protection

Ok, Heres the deal. I have a lot of maps that are ready to be hosted, but i dont want other people stealing my ideas or credit. So it would be very helpful if you guys could explain how to protect a map and anything els i would need to know about protecting maps. Thanks a lot.
-red

Aight, first off make BACKUPS OF ALL OF YOUR MAPS, all of them, because once protected, they are lost.

Next, either get blackdicks heavylocker, or another form of protection, i usually use w3m map utlities (can be found in files section)

After you protect your map, no one can open it(hopefully) with w3m map utilites use the w3m power protector, i found that ones pretty good.

Also test your map a couple times after you protected it, make sure it works, some protecters screw it up.

and last thing, MAKE BACKUPS BEFORE YOU PROTECT!!!

Thanks a ton, but i'm having trouble finding what i need in the files page. Any help?

map protectors aren't in the files page, Warcraft III Map Utilities should be, but I'm not certain. If its not do a search on the forums for it. Right now, the most recent version of heavy locker will not protect maps created in 1.16, so I would suggest going with Exprotect. Heavy Locker can still be used to compress map size though.

Here is the older version of Heavy Locker i use this, i believe it protects maps and has possibly the best map file compression you can find.