Last month a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, the software many PC users use to extract .zip and other files on their computer. While the company was quick to patch the bug, that match ...

A full-featured program which offers impressive extraction speeds and is ideal for creating RAR and ZIP archives, but isn’t so hot in terms of compression speeds. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend ...

Using compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR shrinks files so they take up less space. This makes zip and rar files ideal for sharing over email or by USB drive. However, some types of files, ...

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 ...

IT security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the WinRAR packaging program that allows attackers to inject and execute malicious code. The vulnerability is already being attacked on the ...

ESET found a high-severity bug in WinRAR being used by RomCom, a known Russian hacking collective The bug was being used to deploy backdoors allowing full access to compromised computers WinRAR says ...

In brief: Last week, a researcher discovered a vulnerability in older trial versions of the WinRAR file compression software. It allows for remote code execution---essentially allowing an attacker to ...