Free: Unrestricted, licenced WinRAR

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Once Upon A Time (on or around Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:20:54 GMT), in
by way of Message-iD said:
See article at http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/002491.html

For one day only (Sunday, in the Central European timezone), a free,
licensed copy of WinRAR 3.51 may be downloaded.
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I wouldn't do it.

I ran "win-rar.com" thru several services, as it were; neither Whois, nor
Tracert, nor RWhois, although Tracert did end-up with "relay.rarmail.de"
(whatever the heck _that_ is). And then there's the thing with the site wanting
an e-mail addy from you.
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:20:54 GMT), in


I wouldn't do it.

I ran "win-rar.com" thru several services, as it were; neither Whois, nor
Tracert, nor RWhois, although Tracert did end-up with "relay.rarmail.de"
(whatever the heck _that_ is). And then there's the thing with the site wanting
an e-mail addy from you.
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goto
rarlab.com or rarsoft.com

scroll to bottom
see:
`Copyright 2002-2006 Alexander Roshal. All rights reserved.
win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com.'

click `Partnership'
goto http://www.win-rar.com/partners

or

click `Dealers'
scroll to bottom
see:
`If you are looking for additional information on WinRAR, please also visit www.win-rar.com.'

or

click `Other'
see `Sales'
`Please send your questions about sales and licensing questions to (e-mail address removed).
English, French, German or Spanish please.'
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around 29 Jul 2006 04:42:02 -0000), in
by way said:
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Vrodok the Piglet lover wrote: [snip]

goto
rarlab.com or rarsoft.com

scroll to bottom
see:
`Copyright 2002-2006 Alexander Roshal. All rights reserved.
win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com.'

click `Partnership'
goto http://www.win-rar.com/partners

or

click `Dealers'
scroll to bottom
see:
`If you are looking for additional information on WinRAR, please also visit www.win-rar.com.'

or

click `Other'
see `Sales'
`Please send your questions about sales and licensing questions to (e-mail address removed).
English, French, German or Spanish please.'
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Anybody (especially the unscrupulous) can put anything on a website that they
may desire. Here's something you may not have heard of; all the above you've
typed, but possibly the download-link on redirect. So, one ends-up grabbing a
file from a site that, to most intents and purposes, *appears* as if it is
hosted on a legitimate website, but ain't.

If the download-link was (verifiably) hosted at/on the Rarlabs (from whence
comes WinRar itself) site, I would not have a problem. Elsewhere ("win-rar.com"
*looks* familiar, and safe, but that sort of sentiment is what sucks-in the
unwary. And the naive trusting souls, to their detriment. Happened *many*, many
times. Been there, done that.

Well, it's your computer.
 
<CUT_THE_CRAP>

It's fake, and most propabily virus, spyware or other malware.
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No, it's not fake. After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
 
No, it's not fake. After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
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Sorry..., I was to quick in my reponse.

But there where just to many things which made it look like fake, and
normally, 99.99% of such announcements are fake.
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:53:50 +0200), in
by way of said:
< [snip]

No, it's not fake. After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
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Sorry..., I was to quick in my reponse.

But there where just to many things which made it look like fake, and
normally, 99.99% of such announcements are fake.
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Such as the (I've said this elsewhere, also) download-link appearing on a site
similar to the WinRar name, but not quite. I would not have a problem with
www.rarlabs.com, but www.win-rar.com ?

That raises my hackles, and suspicions. Trusting people (such as I once was;
double-clicked on an exe-file I shouldn't have and ended-up offline for close
to a _month_) are the ones who end up with Diety-knows-what on their boxes when
running exe's of doubtful parentage.
 
Vrodok said:
That raises my hackles, and suspicions. Trusting people (such as I once was;
double-clicked on an exe-file I shouldn't have and ended-up offline for close
to a _month_) are the ones who end up with Diety-knows-what on their boxes when
running exe's of doubtful parentage.
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To soothe the unsootheable.......all that is given (in this giveaway)
is a key file (plain text). The program you download is from the
author's site, say as any other day.
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:53:50 +0200), in
by way of said:
< [snip]

No, it's not fake. After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
Click to expand...

Sorry..., I was to quick in my reponse.

But there where just to many things which made it look like fake, and
normally, 99.99% of such announcements are fake.
Click to expand...

Such as the (I've said this elsewhere, also) download-link appearing on a site
similar to the WinRar name, but not quite. I would not have a problem with
www.rarlabs.com, but www.win-rar.com ?
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So I feld too, because in 99.99% of cases it is malware then +
presented in a certain way.

I acted like a well-trained spam filter which occasionally gices a
false positive.

I wanted to respond quickly, to save as may people from installing
malware, taht's why I didn't investigate that well.
That raises my hackles, and suspicions. Trusting people (such as I once was;
double-clicked on an exe-file I shouldn't have and ended-up offline for close
to a _month_) are the ones who end up with Diety-knows-what on their boxes when
running exe's of doubtful parentage.
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It's a good thing to be suspicious, that will not hurt :-)
 
To soothe the unsootheable.......all that is given (in this giveaway)
is a key file (plain text). The program you download is from the
author's site, say as any other day.
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But this was not clear at first.
 
So is there a working link to get the key for the software? I get
nothing when I click on the links.
 
So is there a working link to get the key for the software? I get
nothing when I click on the links.
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Don't know, didn't try that. I allreaddy have software that can handle
all sorts of compressed files.
 
So is there a working link to get the key for the software? I get
Don't know, didn't try that. I allreaddy have software that can handle
all sorts of compressed files.
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As far as I know, 7-Zip can uncompress RAR files, but it cannot
compress them. I don't believe you can make RAR files with 7-Zip,
which is what I use. Since people persist in using proprietary RAR
files instead of the universal and open ZIP file format, it might
be worth having WinRAR for making RAR files, but only if it can be
downloaded for free -- it's definitely not worth paying for.
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around 29 Jul 2006 18:42:53 -0700), in
alt.comp.freeware, (e-mail address removed), by way of Message-iD
To soothe the unsootheable.......all that is given (in this giveaway)
is a key file (plain text). The program you download is from the
author's site, say as any other day.
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Ah. Well, that info was bound in mist and magic <g> firstly. Boiling cauldron
seemed to dominate, whilst now doth the colorful rainbow : )
 
»Q« said:
No, it's not fake. After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
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»Q«,

Tried FF and IE-to get the key, all I get is errors?
 
~They should be rewarding those of us who *have* coughed up for
~registration!
~
Your cheque is in the mail.
 
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