Sometimes a client or colleague needs to send you large files. One common way to handle large files is to compress them into a ZIP package to make the file size more reasonable for transmission over ...

If you’re still using WinRAR, you should update to version 7.12 as soon as possible. A vulnerability labeled CVE-2025-6218 was recently discovered in older versions of the popular Windows file ...

Once you go out of WinRAR and try something else, you would immediately notice how dated the tool has been. This realization hit me when I switched to a modern open-source alternative that made me ...

There was a time that Windows didn't have decompression and archiving tools built into the OS, with many people resorting to tools like WinRAR and 7-Zip to unpack compressed files. Both apps are among ...

Still a dedicated WinRar user? You need to update your software right now, especially if you’ve got cryptocurrency. A zero-day vulnerability in WinRar has been allowing hackers to break into trading ...

The latest version of the shareware app patches a rather significant security flaw dubbed CVE-2023-40477, allowing hackers to access memory beyond the allocated buffer. The flaw would give hackers ...

Users of the popular file-compression tool are urged to immediately update after a serious code-execution flaw was found in WinRAR. Popular Windows data compression tool WinRAR has patched a serious ...

March 16, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Last month a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, the software many PC users use to extract .zip and other ...

Remember that early 2000s software that extracted .zip files and just about any other file archive on your Windows PC, WinRAR? The one that constantly bugged you to buy it but could be duped by ...

TL;DR: Security researchers identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) in older WinRAR versions that allows hackers to bypass security features and execute malicious files from extracted ...

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 ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. WinRAR has patched a 19-year-old security vulnerability that ...