In spite of being downloadable from sites such as cnet.com that claim to have checked for this, JZIP is actually a mixture of spyware and Trojans. It seems to have slipped past AVG Free. It is looking like a major struggle to get rid of it.
UPDATE: It took several passes with Spybot S&D (including several reboots) as well as removing the executable from somewhere deep in the bowels of C:\Program Files\Windows to finally get rid of this beast.
Let me put in a plug for 7-zip. (Google that, or just add ".org" to "7-zip"). It's free, open source, decompresses everything, etc. Its user interface looks more like programmer art or a Win95 app, but it *just works* and is rock solid.
ReplyDeleteLet me second the recommendation for 7-zip. Good, solid work and supports everything from zip to rar files.
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ReplyDeleteI think the big news here is that software downloads from CNet cannot be trusted.
ReplyDeleteThat is, the CNet brand is valueless.
Fourthed. 7zip is The Thing, if you need more zip-ing than Windows comes with.
ReplyDeleteJust another 7-Zip fanboy cheerleading comment here for all the reasons mentioned in the first comment, plus there is one that runs on Linux, too!
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