Please update your WinRAR, there has been some recent exploits recently. Keep your version current if you use it.


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Re: RAR
By: Utopian Galt to All on Thu Dec 11 2025 09:43 pm

Please update your WinRAR, there has been some recent exploits recently. Keep your version current if you use it.

I don't use WinRAR much anymore these days; I just discovered the version I have is fairly 'old' now (version 5.50 from 2017).. I'll install the latest.

I may be one of the few people who actually registered WinRAR years ago. :P I had used it enough that I figured it would be good for me to pay for a license.

Nightfox
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I may be one of the few people who
actually registered WinRAR years
ago. :P I had used it enough that
I figured it would be good for me
to pay for a license.

I think there used to be a subreddit (maybe there still is) for people who registered their copy of WinRar!

Somthing like /r/paidforwinrar or something...


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Re: RAR
By: Nightfox to Utopian Galt on Fri Dec 12 2025 08:04:07

Hi, Nightfox.

I may be one of the few people who actually registered WinRAR years ago. :P I had used it enough that I figured it would be good for me to pay for a license.

*You're* the guy?

Well done!

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Re: Re: RAR
By: slacker to Nightfox on Fri Dec 12 2025 07:45 pm

I may be one of the few people who
actually registered WinRAR years
ago. :P I had used it enough that
I figured it would be good for me
to pay for a license.

I think there used to be a subreddit (maybe there still is) for people who registered their copy of WinRar!

Somthing like /r/paidforwinrar or something...

I hadn't seen it, but maybe I'll check it out.

I've also seen a Star Trek meme with Q saying "the trial never ends" with the WinRAR icon on it.

Nightfox
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Hello Nightfox!

12 Dec 25 08:04, you wrote to Utopian Galt:

I don't use WinRAR much anymore these days; I just discovered the
version I have is fairly 'old' now (version 5.50 from 2017).. I'll install the latest.

I may be one of the few people who actually registered WinRAR years
ago. :P I had used it enough that I figured it would be good for me to
pay for a license.

I registered it also then stopped using Windows :)

TheCivvie


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Quoting Nightfox to Slacker <=-

I've also seen a Star Trek meme with Q saying "the trial never ends"
with the WinRAR icon on it.
Nightfox

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Re: RAR
By: TheCivvie to Nightfox on Fri Dec 12 2025 09:56 pm

I may be one of the few people who actually registered WinRAR years ago.

I registered it also then stopped using Windows :)

I feel like someone could make something similar for the various Linux window managers and call it something like X-RAR, GnomeRAR, KRAR, or similar.. :)

Nightfox
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Hey Nightfox!

On Fri, Dec 12 2025 17:37:25 -0600, you wrote:

I feel like someone could make something similar for the various
Linux window managers and call it something like X-RAR, GnomeRAR,
KRAR, or similar.. :)

No need for extra letters. The "rar" package is available in most distros, and if you only need to extract RAR files, there is also "unrar".

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: RAR
By: Accession to Nightfox on Fri Dec 12 2025 05:59 pm

I feel like someone could make something similar for the various Linux
window managers and call it something like X-RAR, GnomeRAR, KRAR, or
similar.. :)

No need for extra letters. The "rar" package is available in most distros, and if you only need to extract RAR files, there is also "unrar".

Well yes, but those are command-line utilities (and I do have them installed). I was thinking along the lines of a GUI utility, as WinRAR is a RAR tool with a Windows GUI.. Also my post was a bit tongue-in-cheek too (as in a WinRAR clone for Linux GUI environments).

Nightfox
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Me too :)
in 2018


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Hey Nightfox!

On Fri, Dec 12 2025 18:43:18 -0600, you wrote:

Well yes, but those are command-line utilities (and I do have them installed). I was thinking along the lines of a GUI utility, as
WinRAR is a RAR tool with a Windows GUI.. Also my post was a bit tongue-in-cheek too (as in a WinRAR clone for Linux GUI
environments).

This sounds like the long time Windows user in you talking. ;)

Even so, I'm not sure I have any GUI extraction utilities for Windows any more. I don't really consider both Windows "Extract here.." and 7zip's right click and extract menu option much of a GUI utility, though. At least not like WinRAR used to be, anyway.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: RAR
By: Accession to Nightfox on Fri Dec 12 2025 09:16 pm

Well yes, but those are command-line utilities (and I do have them
installed). I was thinking along the lines of a GUI utility, as WinRAR is
a RAR tool with a Windows GUI.. Also my post was a bit tongue-in-cheek too
(as in a WinRAR clone for Linux GUI environments).

This sounds like the long time Windows user in you talking. ;)

How so? It was just a joke. :P But maybe that didn't come across very well..

Nightfox
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Hello Nightfox!

12 Dec 25 15:37, you wrote to me:

I may be one of the few people who actually registered WinRAR
years ago.

I registered it also then stopped using Windows :)

I feel like someone could make something similar for the various Linux window managers and call it something like X-RAR, GnomeRAR, KRAR, or similar.. :)

I did email them and ask about a GUI Mac OSX, rejected straight away

TheCivvie


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Hey Nightfox!

On Fri, Dec 12 2025 22:32:15 -0600, you wrote:

This sounds like the long time Windows user in you talking. ;)

How so? It was just a joke. :P But maybe that didn't come across
very well..

Ah ok. I guess I didn't realize you were joking, and actually thought it might be a good idea.

To be fair, it's been so long that I've used WinRAR that I don't even remember it's GUI. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

Please update your WinRAR, there has been some recent exploits
recently. Keep your version current if you use it.

As soon as I invent a time machine and go back to 2001, I'll update my installation of WinRAR. :)



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slacker wrote to Nightfox <=-

Somthing like /r/paidforwinrar or something...

I should start /r/paidforwinamp -- back in 1997 or so, there was a paid version. I worked for a gaming company and we horsetraded software
licenses. We made out like bandits - trading a game title for 10 windows
CALs, or copies of Windows server...

We traded copies of Tomb Raider for 20-30 WinAMP licenses, right before
they went freeware. Sure, they might have pulled a fast one, but WinAMP
really *does* whip the llama's ass.





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Re: Re: RAR
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Utopian Galt on Sat Dec 13 2025 07:50 am

As soon as I invent a time machine and go back to 2001, I'll update my installation of WinRAR. :)

I don't use WinRAR much these days, but I still occasionally use it. It has a feature I always thought was handy, where you can select multiple archives (of most formats) in Windows Explorer, right-click, and have WinRAR extract each one into a separate subdirectory with its own name (named after the name of the archive). I haven't seen any other archiver for Windows that has that feature. But I suppose it may be possible to do some manual registry work to add that to the right-click context menu for any archiver in Windows, or write a batch file to do so..

Nightfox
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Re: Re: RAR
By: poindexter FORTRAN to slacker on Sat Dec 13 2025 08:02 am

We traded copies of Tomb Raider for 20-30 WinAMP licenses, right before they went freeware. Sure, they might have pulled a fast one, but WinAMP really *does* whip the llama's ass.

I really liked WinAmp. I've used it recently, but now I have a 4K monitor and it seems WinAmp doesn't do UI scaling or respond to the Windows GUI zoom setting, so its window was really small.

Nightfox
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