Battle Which Archiver to choose?

[9ucto5]

hello MalwareTips!

i want to get good and powerful file compressor for my small business.
please help me to select best option
also feel free to give me youre oponion on them and also youre recommendation
also tell me why you choose it
thanks alot

 

[Scirious]

I voted for WinRar because I have an old license and it works very well, but why not consider 7zip? It is free and it also works well.

 

[9ucto5]

I voted for WinRar because I have an old license and it works very well, but why not consider 7zip? It is free and it also works well.

i never use that software who about it like in security and update terms?
because i don't want to add free and not secure software to my business and make it less secure

 

[Pixel_]

My choice is Winrar.

Design is old but you can download a theme from the official site.

It's UI friendly (for me).
Never had issues with it.

You can consider 7zip too.

The main features of 7z format:

• Open architecture
• High compression ratio
• Strong AES-256 encryption
• Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method
• Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB
• Unicode file names
• Solid compressing
• Archive headers compressing

And it's free

 

[Scirious]

i never use that software who about it like in security and update terms?
because i don't want to add free and not secure software to my business and make it less secure

O don't follow it that close, however O have both 7zip and WinRar installed and they never caused me any problems.

 

[n8chavez]

I'd go with 7zip also. The upgrade policy for WinRar just makes it too expensive. When you compare the features versus price, there's just no reason to chose WinRar.

 

[Sorrento]

I'm a fan of WinRar, my licence was bought hundreds of years ago & it updates without issue & far more stable than my sister-in-laws

 

[SeriousHoax]

I nominate 7zip also. Unless you are used to WinRar or other software, I don't see any reason to not choose 7zio as it's simply better, including reduced file size for 7zip files.
7zio now also has the option to enable "Mark Of The Web" aka "Zone.Identifier" which could add an extra security layer on extracted files downloaded from the internet. Some AV software also performs extra cloud/behavioral scanning for files with MOTW for example: Microsoft Defender.

 

[rain2reign]

Either winrar or 7zip will do. I tend find WinRAR more often in businesses though, often due to internal policy and official business/enterprise support from WinRar. Can't go wrong with either one.

 

[Mystic]

Winrar is very polished and fast. I hate the interface of 7zip. Another great option is Peazip.

 

[ForgottenSeer 77194]

Check out Zstandard Compression Algorithm, currently the best in class with a good compression ratio and very fast compression and decompression.
Instead of 7zip, you might choose Bandizip it performs similarly to 7zip with "Mark Of The Web" and Exploit mitigations enabled.

 

[rain2reign]

Check out Zstandard Compression Algorithm, currently the best in class with a good compression ratio and very fast compression and decompression.
Instead of 7zip, you might choose Bandizip it performs similarly to 7zip with "Mark Of The Web" and Exploit mitigations enabled.

For the folks that want to use or stay with 7-zip are in luck. Zstandard (Zstd) is currently being worked on, while mr. Pavlov hopes it'd be ready in the next version.
source: 7-Zip / Feature Requests / #1580 Please add zstd support

Igor Pavlov - 2022-08-08
I work for zstd support in 7-zip now.
So next version of 7-zip probably will support it.
Now you can try to use some external plugin with zstd support.

 

[SeriousHoax]

There is also the open source 7zip fork NanaZip available on Microsoft Store with support for Zstandard, exploit mitigations and other added features:

GitHub - M2Team/NanaZip: The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience

The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience - M2Team/NanaZip

github.com

 

[Mystic]

There is also the open source 7zip fork NanaZip available on Microsoft Store with support for Zstandard, exploit mitigations and other added features:

GitHub - M2Team/NanaZip: The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience

The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience - M2Team/NanaZip

github.com

Is there any way to get a traditional installer as Microsoft Store is not available in Windows LTSC?

 

[SeriousHoax]

Is there any way to get a traditional installer as Microsoft Store is not available in Windows LTSC?

Try downloading the .msixbundle bundle from GitHub or Microsoft Store - Generation Project (v1.2.3) [by @rgadguard & mkuba50]
Then open powershell as admin, use "Set-Location" to change the directory to the location of the file and type Add-AppxPackage "*******.msixbundle"
Otherwise, you might have to try with Winget: Installation Guide for LTSC (and Server OS) · Discussion #1956 · microsoft/winget-cli

 

[cruelsister]

7zip

 

[9ucto5]

thanks all for helping me out i get winrar and also download afew good skin

 

[Mystic]

thanks all for helping me out i get winrar and also download afew good skin

I hope you did not pirate it

 

[9ucto5]

I hope you did not pirate it

nope iam always support dev and good and useful software no matter what its a good way to show them love and support them so they improved those software and we used them both win-win

 

[n8chavez]

thanks all for helping me out i get winrar and also download afew good skin

I prefer the neon flat winrar theme. Check it out.