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[–] 35 points 3 years ago (13 children)

However, from a practical perspective, deceiving users into performing the required action shouldn't be overly challenging, and given the vast size of WinRAR's user base

Excuse me, but "vast" size of WinRAR's user base? I didn't know WinRAR even had any users left.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    9 out of 10 people I know use WinRAR. It's amongst the very firsr software they install at fresh start.

    I myself also just changed to 7-Zip around... I don't know, a year ago?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Which part of the world is this, if you don't mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven't come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Am in the US and used winrar for a long time as it was integrated into Usenet binaries as rar files. It was embedded with some other software.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Well, even FAR manager which they've open-souced long time ago is still maintained 😀 Good thing they didn't discover this bug in 2000s!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Ah, FAR manager.

    I used it last time around... 15 years ago to apply VKP patches on my Sony Ericsson phones :P like making my K750i into a 'W750i' with W800i software, adding GFX and Acoustic patches...

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