Sometimes a client or colleague needs to send you large files. One common way to handle large files is to compress them into a ZIP package to make the file size more reasonable for transmission over ...

WinRAR has been around for decades, and for a long time it felt untouchable. It was the tool everyone used, the one that lived on almost every Windows PC. Then came 7-Zip. It was faster, open-source, ...

March 16, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Last month a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, the software many PC users use to extract .zip and other ...

Image courtesy by QUE.com The security world rarely slows down—and this week’s headlines highlight how quickly threats, tools, and ...

Remember that early 2000s software that extracted .zip files and just about any other file archive on your Windows PC, WinRAR? The one that constantly bugged you to buy it but could be duped by ...

Most of us didn’t choose WinRAR, it just showed up on our PCs one day and never left. Longer than I can remember, I’ve been using WinRAR and it has done its job pretty well. It compressed files, ...

The latest version of the shareware app patches a rather significant security flaw dubbed CVE-2023-40477, allowing hackers to access memory beyond the allocated buffer. The flaw would give hackers ...

If you’re still using WinRAR, you should update to version 7.12 as soon as possible. A vulnerability labeled CVE-2025-6218 was recently discovered in older versions of the popular Windows file ...

TL;DR: Security researchers identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) in older WinRAR versions that allows hackers to bypass security features and execute malicious files from extracted ...

Still a dedicated WinRar user? You need to update your software right now, especially if you’ve got cryptocurrency. A zero-day vulnerability in WinRar has been allowing hackers to break into trading ...

WinRAR, one of the world's most popular Windows file compression applications, has patched last month a severe security flaw that can be abused to hijack users' systems just by tricking a WinRAR user ...

Some software costs money, and some software is truly free. But in the middle, there's a grey are. Perhaps one of the best examples is WinRAR with its 40-day free trial, which, as anyone who has ...