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Free WinRAR 3.51 license

WinRAR - Newsletter 12/2006
Issue: August 4, 2006


Welcome to the 45th edition of the WinRAR Newsletter!
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This newsletter contains the following topics:

1. Simtel sponsors PCA Special Offer Extension

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1. Simtel sponsors PCA Special Offer Extension

We are proud to present Simtel as a sponsor for the promised extension
of our PCA Special Offer. As we have informed you in our previous
newsletter, many users were not able to access our website last
Sunday. Therefore we give you and all your friends a second and last
chance to sign up for your award winning WinRAR 3.51 license key (this
license key will only be valid for 3.51 and cannot be used in later
versions of WinRAR).


Please fill out the form at

http://nct.digitalriver.com/fulfill/0233.001

and wait for further information that will be sent to you by email
immediately. This form will only be online untill Saturday, August
5th, at midnight (CET).

Please note that this is really the last chance to get your free
registration for WinRAR 3.51. After midnight tomorrow there will be no
other extension to this offer. So good luck and enjoy WinRAR!

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #1 –
Thanks.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #2 –
this is great, exspecially since they fixed some severe 3.51 security issues in the last 3.60 beta and you remain stuck with the old version

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #3 –
Thanks for the heads up
we was young an' full of beans

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #4 –
I've used (either 3.52 or 3.54, I forget) for a long time now and I don't have any probs.  The trial version I got from friends never stopped working and didn't limit anything (patched?), and I use it to this day.  At the time I thought it was the best and I still kinda do, although I haven't tried any of the newer programs.
It's due for a good DEGAUSSIN'

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #5 –
Quote from: sony666 on
this is great, exspecially since they fixed some severe 3.51 security issues in the last 3.60 beta and you remain stuck with the old version

Yeah it would have been nice if they would have waited for 3.60 to be a final build version versus the old 3.51, however it is after all being offered for free. But there's other open source or freeware alternatives so it really shouldn't be an issue with the likes of 7-Zip and/or IZArc.
Quote from: OmniCbex on
The trial version I got from friends never stopped working and didn't limit anything (patched?), and I use it to this day.

A so-called "patched" illegal warez version is an easy way to get malware on your system.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #6 –
yeah its free
anyone using 3.51 should delete lzh.fmt in the \formats directory though, just to be safer.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #7 –
You could probably update the lzh.fmt file from a newer version, just extract it from the setup file. Also if not wanting to go that route the format itself could be completely disabled via WinRAR's settings by unticking it and thus LZH will become unregistered and unusable.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Andavari on
A so-called "patched" illegal warez version is an easy way to get malware on your system.


I run anti-malware scans all the time and I haven't found anything.
There are two kinds of warez sites:
The kind that gives you quality patches and keys that work and no viruses, or
The kind that gives you all viruses and is good for nothing else.
My rule of thumb is to always have any files you download from the net scanned and if it is bad, never use that site again.
Also, it throws up a big red flag when you get Crack.exe or anything.exe (a little leeway to patches and keygens because they have to be executeable).
It's due for a good DEGAUSSIN'

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #9 –
Quote from: Andavari on
the format lzh itself could be completely disabled via WinRAR's settings by unticking it and thus LZH will become unregistered and unusable.


Hehe no, thats the funny thing about the lzh exploit.
You rename a lzh archive to zip or rar.
Winrar does not use extensions at all, it analyzes the files you do operations on.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #10 –
Quote from: sony666 on
Quote from: Andavari on

the format lzh itself could be completely disabled via WinRAR's settings by unticking it and thus LZH will become unregistered and unusable.


Hehe no, thats the funny thing about the lzh exploit.
You rename a lzh archive to zip or rar.
Winrar does not use extensions at all, it analyzes the files you do operations on.

Ah, valid point which I obviously didn't even think about enough - quickly deleting lzh.fmt as you suggested!

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #11 –
3.51 has another problem when looking at the WinRAR news page about fixes in 3.60 beta:
Quote
Version 3.60 beta 8

  1. Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in SFX module.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #12 –
as a related news:
WinRAR 3.60 final is out.

http://www.rarlab.com/
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

changelog:

1. Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt switch.
2. WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes. Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut.
3. Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives.
4. Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm.
5. New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog. If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.
6. New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog.
7. Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%.
8. New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button. Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number.
9. "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives.
10. "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm.
11. New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive.
12. New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe.
13. New command line -sl and -sm switches to set size limits of processing files.
14. New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode.
15. 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter.
16. Switch -e
  • is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command.
    17. It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field
Nothing but a Heartache - Since I found my Baby ;)

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #13 –
The difference one month makes of version 3.51 to 3.60. Oh well can't complain since 3.51 was free, but I may switch to 7-Zip in the future.

Free WinRAR 3.51 license

Reply #14 –
Quote from: Andavari on
Ah, valid point which I obviously didn't even think about enough - quickly deleting lzh.fmt as you suggested!


LZH support on WinRAR has always been subpar anyway, lacking decompression routines for most obscure methods (it decompresses files created by LHA.exe fine, since it only uses method lh5, but can't handle files created with LHarc using methods lh1, 4, 6 and 7). Support for method 7 was added only on this release.

I personally use LHmelt to handle LZH archives.