Once upon a time, WinRAR was far and away the most popular archival software for Windows. While it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was—due both to the rise of the open-source 7-Zip as well as Microsoft ...

Version 5.91 of the compression/decompression software ' WinRAR ', which has been under development for more than 25 years since 1995, was released on June 29, 2020 ...

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Last month, a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, a software used to extract .zip and other file archives on your Windows PC. The company was quick to patch the bug, but users who haven't ...

If you use WinRAR, it’s time to update. The file-archiving utility has patched a serious vulnerability that can be exploited to launch malware from a booby-trapped RAR file. After a user reported the ...

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files. For those that have ...