RAR VS XZ Utils

I downloaded Winrar a couple months ago before switching to 7zip, I was reviewing my apps on my windows PC but im scared and confused now, did I download fake Winrar? there's been the Google Ad link problem going recently so I wanted to ask, I downloaded my winrar through here https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0 They've been telling me that win-rar.com is fake and I might have some spyware now, I ran a little... Source: 9 months ago

Win-rar.com and rarlab.com are the official sites. I downloaded winrar from win-rar.com and rarlab.com and both of them are not viruses. Source: over 2 years ago

I used to download winrar from rarlab.com but there is another site which is win-rar.com. This question is only for winrar. Don't recommend other archivers in the comments please, Thank you. Source: over 2 years ago

Yesterday I recently factory reset my PC and when I got most of my programs back I was going to download WinRAR from win-rar.com but when I download WinRAR I scan it with VirusTotal and it detects 2 trojans. Is it a false positive or was I using my PC with 2 trojans before? Source: over 2 years ago

Hi, I'm setting up my new pc after a few years and it confuses me that the top result on google search, win-rar.com, serves files that turn out to be different from the ones from rarlab.com even with the same release numbers and file size. Which of these is the actual official website? Some people recommended to get 7zip instead but I prefer WinRAR's friendlier UI. Source: over 2 years ago

You're having a breakdown. Relax. I'm just trying to have a conversation with you. Nothing personal to get emotional. Here are some resources. For tar, for gz, for xz, for webp, for 7z, for zstd, etc. But, some file extensions were developed for POSIX-like system and how do you expect them to work on windows 10 natively? Thankfully, the community has made it work even tho. It's like me crying over "can you run... Source: over 2 years ago

Thank you for the links but the https://tukaani.org/xz/ link essentially sent me back to python's lmza module and a slightly different lzmaffi library both of which don't seem to have options for reading the dictionary. I do understand this is low-level stuff coded in C/C++ but I wondered if any one made the abstraction to read this data also. Maybe I'll need to make a "script" to read this data... 😑️ this is... Source: almost 3 years ago

These libraries are themselves wrappers of low-level libraries, primarily for performance considerations (as they are almost always coded in C). If you really want to dig into the structure of those formats, you should rather investigate the possibilities of these low-level libraries. Like https://tukaani.org/xz/ for xz/lzma, or https://zlib.net/ for lzw. Source: almost 3 years ago