Blows my mind that anyone still uses WinRAR when 7zip exists.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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WinRAR was good in ancient times when it was the only zip program available. Even in the Windows XP era there were better things to use if you knew about them. I doubt 7zip was really that usable in the early 2000s but it eventually got good and nowadays 7zip is so good that of you aren't using it, you're doing it wrong.
If you're on Windows (I know I know, switch to Linux) I prefer NanaZip over base 7zip
Why not? I prefer it over 7-Zip because it has built-in parity both in the archive itself and as separate files. You can achieve the latter with 7-Zip using PAR, but it's just more convenient to have it built-in for both parity creation and recovery.
I also feel like it's consuming a lot less RAM while compressing at similar speeds and achieving similar, if not sometimes better (RAR5), results.
Just because it had a zero-day bug that has already been fixed doesn't mean it's bad software. I wouldn't be surprised if zero-days came to light in other archival software. 7-Zip isn't magically immune to this.
WinRAR also has clever password and encryption features. (Set short master password, quickly encrypt/decrypt any saved very long passwords.) Integration is great. Updates are regular. I only wish the UI would be updated a bit (more than just icon packs, dark mode).
I don't get why someone would prefer rar over zip and 7z.
Even tar.gz and all their flavors are more common.
Yeah, well technically .cab is more common than tar.gz but that doesn't mean I'd start using it.
I personally use RAR because I think it's a better format than ZIP, but I use ZIP when I have to share the archive with anyone.
How does it compare to 7z (the file format) though?
According to this benchmark, 7z compression is better.
Well it would blow your mind to know that many people just use whatever they know that does the job
There is a certain sense of old friend that you know by heart, I've downloaded so much things where the last step was to pass it by WinRAR, but yeah I should change when there are proofs like that
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7zip exists and is free.
7zip will unpack rar files? I've used it for years and never knew.
Yea. It just can’t pack files into RaR.
I can't find any reason why someone would still use rar in 2023. When I see anyone using it, it means to me they're as technologically literate as my grandpa.
So pretty literate compared to most older people.
Fuck WinRAR. It's for normie NPCs. 7Zip is FOSS, and everybody should be using it instead.
7zip's Linux port (p7zip) was lagging back in functionality last I heard, and also was abandoned then, don't know how it is now.
Better yet stop using Windows
Better yet
Not feasible for the vast majority of users. It's still not mature. Dunno when it'll be if ever.
BETTER YET
Broken record
I'm a .NET dev, I wish lmao
I'd say "well .NET is cross platform" but knowing the average company on .NET it's probably version 3.5 and running off a windows 95 server that hisses whenever someone gets too close to it.
Tbh I quite like developing .net on my Mac. I do away with VS and just use vscode and command line. It feels nice
I used to use Mac with rider on my last job, and it worked nicely! Sadly it's not really an option working with legacy stuff
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Who the hell hurts winRAR? That's like punching Dolly Parton.
See guys, we shoulda paid for it back then. Now we're paying for it now XD
"Group-IB said the flaw was exploited as a zero-day — since the developer had zero time to fix the bug before it was exploited — as far back as April to compromise the devices of at least 130 traders."
We're all to blame for not registering
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The WinRAR vulnerability, first discovered by cybersecurity company Group-IB earlier this year and tracked as CVE-2023-38831, allows attackers to hide malicious scripts in archive files that masquerade as seemingly innocuous images or text documents.
In research shared with TechCrunch ahead of its publication, TAG says it has observed multiple campaigns exploiting the WinRAR zero-day bug, which it has tied to state-backed hacking groups with links to Russia and China.
One of these groups includes a Russian military intelligence unit dubbed Sandworm, which is known for destructive cyberattacks, like the NotPetya ransomware attack it launched in 2017 that primarily hit computer systems in Ukraine and disrupted the country’s power grid.
Separately, TAG says it observed another notorious Russia-backed hacking group, tracked as APT28 and commonly known as Fancy Bear, using the WinRAR zero-day to target users in Ukraine under the guise of an email campaign impersonating the Razumkov Centre, a public policy think tank in the country.
Google’s findings follow an earlier discovery by threat intelligence company Cluster25, which said last week that it had also observed Russian hackers exploiting the WinRAR vulnerability as a phishing campaign designed to harvest credentials from compromised systems.
Google added that its researchers found evidence that the China-backed hacking group, known as APT40, which the U.S. government has previously linked to China’s Ministry of State Security, also abused the WinRAR zero-day flaw as part of a phishing campaign targeting users based in Papua New Guinea.
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I read "dubbed Sandworm" but my brain always displays darude Sandstorm in my mind.
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