When you open a ZIP file on your Windows PC, what happens? Does an app like WinRAR or 7-Zip pop up and show you the contents of that archive? What if I told you that you're using the wrong app to open ...

Does 7-Zip keep showing the Data error on your Windows PC? 7-Zip is a popular file archiver that enables you to compress or decompress archives in different formats ...

A high-severity vulnerability in the 7-Zip file archiver allows attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature and execute code on users' computers when extracting malicious ...

A new, extensive review of 15 archive applications was posted this week at DonationCoder.com, and of course, I take full responsibility for it; just one guy spending a month doing some real-world ...

7-Zip is a popular archiving tool used to compress and extract files. Many people use it instead of WinRAR to reduce file sizes and make them easier to manage. It has been around since 1999, with the ...

I recently needed to install a Solaris package on a day I was working from home. I didn’t have my Solaris CDs with me nor did I know which CD of the set the particular package would be located on. And ...

In my adaptation of the Java code into the Groovy script shown above, I left most of the exception handling in place. Although Groovy allows exceptions to be ignored whether they are checked or ...

Thist message usually appears when you try to open or extract an archive that has been password-protected, but the tool you’re using doesn’t support decryption. It can also occur because the archive ...

Earlier this week, security firm Trend Micro posted a security advisory (spotted by BleepingComputer) about a big vulnerability in 7-Zip, a popular file archiving utility app that’s used by millions ...

Researchers said they recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility that was actively exploited as part of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The vulnerability allowed ...

A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user’s computer into a residential proxy node. Residential proxy networks use home user devices ...