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Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Wilshire to c/technology
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[โ€“] InvaderDJ 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in the day WIndows didn't even have the capability to deal with ZIPs natively. Even if its time was brief (which I honestly don't remember, I think that it was useful for years, almost up to Vista's time) it was useful.

And I do think it generous that this paid software just let you use it after clicking a button with no time limit. Time gave us better options, but I think a lot of people look at WinRAR harsher than it deserves.

[โ€“] scottywh 1 points 1 year ago

Most people already had WinZip for zip files before Windows had built in support and most people didn't ever really even deal with rar files.