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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us didn’t choose WinRAR, it just showed up on our PCs one day and never left. Longer than I can remember, I’ve been using WinRAR and it has done its job pretty well. It compressed files, ...

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 ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. If you use WinRAR, it’s time to update. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The spam campaign is being used to spread a malicious .exe file, taking advantage of a vulnerability in WinRAR which was patched in January. A critical 19-year-old WinRAR vulnerability disclosed last ...