Houston Chronicle

How to Extract Divided Zip Files in WinRAR

There are two common ways of squeezing large files into smaller sizes: ZIP and RAR. The ZIP format is much more common, but there are times when RAR works better, especially when the file is ...
Bleeping Computer

Clever ‘File Archiver In The Browser’ phishing trick uses ZIP domains

A new 'File Archivers in the Browser' phishing kit abuses ZIP domains by displaying fake WinRAR or Windows File Explorer windows in the browser to convince users to launch malicious files. Earlier ...
Ars Technica

why would Winrar work when 7-zip and windows explorer won't? isn't a zip just a zip?

so I downloaded this zip file of an mp4 movie (3.9GB) as a reward for a kickstarter a while ago but every time i tried to unzip it 'failed crc checks' so tried z-zip ( version 9.2 ) (which the ...
Android Authority

Don't pay for WinRAR! Windows 11 will soon support RAR files

Microsoft has quietly announced that it will support opening RAR files on Windows 11. The file format typically requires WinRAR or another file compression app. ZIP is a popular file compression ...
GIGAZINE

A vulnerability that enables arbitrary code execution just by opening a file with the long-established compression decompression software 'WinRAR' is discovered, and a modified ...

It has been reported that a vulnerability ' CVE-2023-40477 ' has been discovered in WinRAR, a file compression/decompression software for Windows, that allows ...