TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archiveswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1641arrow-down18cross-posted to: news@kbin.socialsaugumas@group.ltcybersecurity@infosec.pub
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minus-squarekuneho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·1 year ago9 out of 10 people I know use WinRAR. It’s amongst the very firsr software they install at fresh start. I myself also just changed to 7-Zip around… I don’t know, a year ago?
minus-squared3Xt3r@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoWhich part of the world is this, if you don’t mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven’t come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).
minus-squarekuneho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI’m from Europe, in the embrace of the Carpathian Mountains :) before WinRAR, people used WinZIP here in the '00s (at least Windows folks). Again, a strange choice, I know.
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAm in the US and used winrar for a long time as it was integrated into Usenet binaries as rar files. It was embedded with some other software.
minus-squaregraphite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoWinRAR was what I used in the 2000s. Around 2011, 7-zip was my goto. I haven’t looked back since. I wasn’t aware of pea-zip until this thread
9 out of 10 people I know use WinRAR. It’s amongst the very firsr software they install at fresh start.
I myself also just changed to 7-Zip around… I don’t know, a year ago?
Which part of the world is this, if you don’t mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven’t come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).
I’m from Europe, in the embrace of the Carpathian Mountains :)
before WinRAR, people used WinZIP here in the '00s (at least Windows folks). Again, a strange choice, I know.
Am in the US and used winrar for a long time as it was integrated into Usenet binaries as rar files. It was embedded with some other software.
WinRAR was what I used in the 2000s. Around 2011, 7-zip was my goto. I haven’t looked back since.
I wasn’t aware of pea-zip until this thread
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