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19-years-old WinRAR vulnerability leads to over 100 malware exploits (Update Now!)
SlashGear ^
| Mar 16, 2019
| Adam Westlake
Posted on 03/18/2019 6:04:06 AM PDT by dayglored
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I've used WinRAR for decades, and my copy is ancient. Time to update!!
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:04:06 AM PDT
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:04:37 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; Ernest_at_the_Beach; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:04:46 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: dayglored
The WinRAR software isn’t nearly as popular as it was years ago, but since it’s racked up over 500 million users in almost 20 years, there’s no way to know how many have been affected by the bug. The other big problem is that while version 5.70 was released in late January, it must be manually downloaded and installed from the website, leaving most users unaware of the critical update.
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:05:39 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
These malwares make a computer run very slowly over time.
Wouldn’t we have noticed that after 2 decades?
Still better safe than sorry.
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:06:15 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: dayglored
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:06:23 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: dayglored
Updated. Thanks for the hint!
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:18:53 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: ShadowAce; dayglored; Swordmaker
FWIW, the RUSSIANS seem to use WinRAR a lot, for some odd reason..........................
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:28:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: ShadowAce
Compressed folders have been built in to Windiws for over 10 years. I haven’t used 3PAs for zipping in a long time.
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:41:13 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(As always IMHO)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/18/2019 6:41:34 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(As always IMHO)
To: ShadowAce
If you just need to unpack WinRar files, you can use 7-zip. It is free and open source, so you can inspect the code for vulnerabilities if you like.
To: dayglored
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posted on
03/18/2019 7:07:09 AM PDT
by
Desron13
(You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
To: dayglored
MalwareBytes is a pretty good product, and the ‘basic version’ is free.
To: dayglored
To: proxy_user
It wouldn’t hurt to update 7-zip as well. My copy was years out of date.
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posted on
03/18/2019 8:26:10 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
To: dayglored
targets victims with a bootleg copy of Ariana Grande’s latest album, Thank U, Next.Anyone who would listen to Ariana Grande deserves everything they get.
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posted on
03/18/2019 8:29:23 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dayglored
Well, guess I better uninstall it from my old XP machine. Don’t think I can get the latest updated for that anyway.
To: dayglored
Same here...thanks for the heads-up!
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posted on
03/18/2019 9:27:06 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
To: dp0622
[[These malwares make a computer run very slowly over time.]]
awesome- i can’t stand fast computers- everyone’s in such a hurry these days- i say take your time- don’t rush so much- slow things down lol
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posted on
03/18/2019 9:31:56 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: proxy_user
that’s what I’ve always used-
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posted on
03/18/2019 9:32:37 AM PDT
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Bob434
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