Comment on Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 8 months agoWinRAR 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.
westyvw@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Winrar in ancient times? Lol. People have been arching for a long time before that. Unix, amiga, apple, pc… that is a funny sentence.
Don’t remember PKARK, ARC, and PKWARE?
I believe Winrar became popular because it was easier to use with multi volume archives. Which conveniently worked well with parity files, which all worked great for distributing on usenet.