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Great, now we only need activation codes for WinRar free trial :p

by adr1an 3y ago

gruez 3y ago
Winrar keygens have been around forever
vasili111 3y ago
There are other great alternatives for Winrar, like 7zip.
- LoganDark 3y ago
  There are other great alternatives for Windows XP, too, but some people don't want or can't use alternatives.
- LorenDB 3y ago
  LOL, just told somebody that this morning.
- MikusR 3y ago
  7-zip does recovery records now?
  - meinheld111 3y ago
    BitRot is not as bad anymore thou
Lukas_Skywalker 3y ago
Coincidentally, RAR support will be included in Windows 11: https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-finally-gets-native-rar-support-192034673.html https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-finally-gets-native-rar-...
- capableweb 3y ago
  The original source (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringi...) states: > We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows. It doesn't mention unarchiving/decompressing, maybe I'm being nitpicky, but at a glance, it seems to only be about compression? That'd be horrible though, but more horrible changes that that have gone through lately so I guess you never know...
- i2cmaster 3y ago
  That will probably turn out to have been a mistake. RAR should not be easy to use. TAR and CPIO would have been better formats to support out of the box.
  - rincebrain 3y ago
    Since it's "libarchive" support, good news, we get those too.
    - i2cmaster 3y ago
      Yeah, I saw that. My worry is that this will just make drive-by malware easier.
      - rincebrain 3y ago
        Antimalware engines have already had to support unpacking somewhat arbitrary things, sometimes with serious comedic effects when people fuzzed those unpackers; I don't see this significantly increasing the burden of their examination, signed binaries are no more dangerous after this than before, and unsigned binaries could already bring their own arbitrary unpacker. (At least quickly thinking about it; I could easily have overlooked some complexity, but barring an unpatched libarchive exploit, I don't think this markedly increases attack surface...and at that point, you could probably make similar arguments about adding any new file format?)
  - meinheld111 3y ago
    > RAR should not be easy to use Why is that?
4gotunameagain 3y ago
Using ollydbg to make a crack for WinRar so that the popup does not appear was my very first reverse engineering application.. Fun times. Now the floodgates of the masses have opened to computing, and look at us
tough 3y ago
WinRar had an open backdoor for years wonder that's why it was free lmao
- SillyUsername 3y ago
  It had a bug caused by a third party ACE library that was closed as soon as it was discovered. The ACE library was 15 years old, not knowledge of the exploit. TBF after so many years of people taking the piss of the trial version, if they're still using it in 2023 without paying the one time $30 that's pretty much scumbag Steve and the reason it's free.

Great, now we only need activation codes for WinRar free trial :p

by adr1an 3y ago

Great, now we only need activation codes for WinRar free trial :p

gruez 3y ago

Winrar keygens have been around forever

vasili111 3y ago

There are other great alternatives for Winrar, like 7zip.

LoganDark 3y ago
There are other great alternatives for Windows XP, too, but some people don't want or can't use alternatives.
LorenDB 3y ago
LOL, just told somebody that this morning.
MikusR 3y ago
7-zip does recovery records now?
- meinheld111 3y ago
  BitRot is not as bad anymore thou

Lukas_Skywalker 3y ago

Coincidentally, RAR support will be included in Windows 11: https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-finally-gets-native-rar-support-192034673.html https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-finally-gets-native-rar-...

capableweb 3y ago
The original source (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringing-the-power-of-ai-to-windows-11-unlocking-a-new-era-of-productivity-for-customers-and-developers-with-windows-copilot-and-dev-home/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/05/23/bringi...) states: > We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows. It doesn't mention unarchiving/decompressing, maybe I'm being nitpicky, but at a glance, it seems to only be about compression? That'd be horrible though, but more horrible changes that that have gone through lately so I guess you never know...
i2cmaster 3y ago
That will probably turn out to have been a mistake. RAR should not be easy to use. TAR and CPIO would have been better formats to support out of the box.
- rincebrain 3y ago
  Since it's "libarchive" support, good news, we get those too.
  - i2cmaster 3y ago
    Yeah, I saw that. My worry is that this will just make drive-by malware easier.
    - rincebrain 3y ago
      Antimalware engines have already had to support unpacking somewhat arbitrary things, sometimes with serious comedic effects when people fuzzed those unpackers; I don't see this significantly increasing the burden of their examination, signed binaries are no more dangerous after this than before, and unsigned binaries could already bring their own arbitrary unpacker. (At least quickly thinking about it; I could easily have overlooked some complexity, but barring an unpatched libarchive exploit, I don't think this markedly increases attack surface...and at that point, you could probably make similar arguments about adding any new file format?)
- meinheld111 3y ago
  > RAR should not be easy to use Why is that?

4gotunameagain 3y ago

Using ollydbg to make a crack for WinRar so that the popup does not appear was my very first reverse engineering application.. Fun times. Now the floodgates of the masses have opened to computing, and look at us

tough 3y ago

WinRar had an open backdoor for years wonder that's why it was free lmao

SillyUsername 3y ago
It had a bug caused by a third party ACE library that was closed as soon as it was discovered. The ACE library was 15 years old, not knowledge of the exploit. TBF after so many years of people taking the piss of the trial version, if they're still using it in 2023 without paying the one time $30 that's pretty much scumbag Steve and the reason it's free.