Viewing Security Warning If You Are Using WINRAR!
Hi everyone,
Recently a security issue was discovered with winrar, a more detained explanation of the issue can be found here: https://research.checkpoint.com/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar/
You may ask why we are giving you warnings about security, aren’t security issues discovered all the time? The answer is yes, they are.. but this particular security issue could easily be used by various shady competitor websites of ours to push spyware or viruses onto your computers. We realize if you download from us you most likely download from many other sites which use zip/rar files too and that makes you particularly vulnerable to this security issue.
Since the proof of concept on how to elevate this exploit is now public knowledge it won’t be long before it starts spreading so please make sure you upgrade your winrar by downloading it from: https://www.rarlab.com/download.htm/ or stop using winrar altogether.
TLDR: upgrade your winrar installation or stop using winrar altogether and use 7zip instead.
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Use PeaZip. It does everything.
doing everything is the root cause of the security issue…
I use 7 zip
Anyone know how you can save passwords on 7Zip like you can on WinRar? The shortcuts made extraction faster
just upgrade winrar to the latest version if you don’t want to change, they have patched the security hole in version 5.70
Thank you VERY much for this, hadn’t seen any news about this yet, now my Winrar is updated
What about winrar on android phone?
nah it only affects windows + winrar
Thanks for this! I usually use mac… so Winrar on my windows desktop is probably very outdated
thank you for the information. i have patched my winrar to 3.70.