Re: Winzip Free Full 16
Sibyl Piccuillo
This past Tuesday, I reinstalled WinZip. Today I ran my weekly AdwCleaner scan (version 7.0.2.1), and it identified WinZip Smart Monitor as a PUP. Meanwhile, my MalwareBytes scan finds nothing. When I tried cleaning, using AdwCleaner, I got this message: Caught unhandled unknown exception; terminating.
You should be able to just delete that C:\Program Files\WinZip\WinZip Smart Monitor folder but I'd prefer to have more information as to what it installed on this machine. You said you installed WinZip last Tuesday - did you intentionally install the WinZip Smart Monitor? Where did you download WinZip from? If you look in your installed programs list, do you see separate listings for WinZip and for WinZip Smart Monitor?
Hi, Ried! Yes, I intentionally purchased and downloaded WinZip 22 (Standard Edition) from the WinZip page: -downwz_wzd1cb?tracking=wz
Looking in my WinZip folder, I do see a separate WinZip Smart Monitor folder. So I'm assuming I should be able to delete that. I have Eraser software, so that might be a better option.
"Starting with WinZip 21.5, Smart Monitor is introduced to WinZip. It is being used to provide more granular control over the scheduling of the WinZip Background Tools. If you are not using these tools, you certainly can remove Smart Monitor. It will not hinder any other usage of WinZip."
Same thing here, with this difference... I did not install winzip last week, last month... Got the PUP-message for the first time this weekend, after my weekly scan.
Do not know when smart monitor was slipped onto my computer, but I definitely don't ilke it.
thx for the intel, got it removed.
This is a response from WinZip Technical Support re: Smart Monitor: "You are getting False positive warning from Malwarebytes for Smatmonitor.
The Smart Monitor handles scheduling the WinZip Background Tools ( ) to run. If you use the tools, you will want to keep Smart Monitor running." So if you don't use the tools you can delete it. But Malware bytes needs to address the false positive issue.
This is very interesting. I have Malwarebytes Premium 3.8.3.2965 and WinZip Pro 23.0. Although I am getting the popups to update my WinZip (just got another a minute ago), I have not done so yet. I see this thread began almost 2 years ago and the last post (before now) was a year and a half ago, so I assumed the issue had been resolved. But my Malwarebytes runs a scan every night, and last night's scan is the first time I have gotten a warning about WinZip Smart Monitor. Why it is just coming up now?
This thread is about ADWCleaner, not Malwarebytes, detecting Winzip Smart Monitor, so that would likely explain why up until recently Malwarebytes showed no detections on your system. If you perform a scan with ADWCleaner I bet it would likely detect it. It is usually the case that Malwarebytes and ADWCleaner detect different things from one another, though there is occasionally overlap (they use different detection techniques and separate Research teams to create their detection signatures/definitions and use somewhat different criteria for determining what they will and will not detect).
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Is this me or everybody is puzzled what is up with downloading 1 photo from Icloud photo, not only the download arrives in form of a .zip file, but also if you happen not to have the winzip trial you have to purchase the **** thing? So bothersome...
If you had it installed for some reason, then it would have associated the zip file type to itself which would make it open with the Winzip application and as such may require you to reset the evaluation version. However, Windows 10 has no issues with opening ZIP files on its own you do not need Winzip at all.
Thanks Phil, but I am running WIn 10, and had to uninstall and reinstall for Winzip to allow me to use "WINZIP Evaluation version", otherwise it requests to take action via "buy" button. Not sure if I am missing the point.
I still have winzip 18 and refuse to upgrade any further since I have seen nothing in the upgrades to produce more security. I thought about 7-zip but there were a lot of cautions on the info page so I decided to stick with winzip.
My need is to zip and unzip files and folders and sometimes create a password protected zip file and if 7-Zip can do everything that WinZip can do in that regard then I may either keep my copy of WinZip 19 or switch to 7-Zip if someone can give me a reason to do so. Since there is a 7-Zip beta though, I would like to know more about that if someone has any details. Thanks.
Windows does almost all the Zipping I need.
If I need to create a zip with a password I use 7-Zip.
7-Zip also creates a self extractor if you use the 7z format and it can open lots of other archive types, even ISO.
Where 7-Zip falls down is use, it is not intuitive for me and I usually have to think carefully about what I want to do.
I have .rar file downloaded and when i try to open using the winzip program in my local laptop, it throws an alert "Can not open the "xxx.rar file. It appears to be Invalid archive". But if i rename it to zip then it opens just fine.
Go to settings WinZip options dropdown menu click WinZip optionsIntegrationArchives - Associations...add a tick mark to extensions you want WinZip to handle and untick the ones you do not want associated with WinZip.Now you are ready to just double click the rar file and unzip it from Explorer or within WZ.
I'm new to Paint.net, but I've read your whole history and paint.net features, and think it's going to be the answer to my prayers. Is it possible to download it WITHOUT using WinZip? I use 7xfm -- from 7-zip.org -- and much prefer it to winzip. (I changed my "association" for zipped files long ago and have never looked back.) I'm using Win 7 Pro on both my machines, which works great for everyrhing I need at the moment. I hope to be able to bypass WinZip.
On Saturday, since I found no Download button on the Paint.net site, I assumed -- and we know about those who assume, right? -- that the correct site must be GETPAINT.NET. (Today's getpaint.net site has dropped the urgency to download WinZip, and instead wants you to download a Yahoo-sponsored Search program to replace my Google search bar.) Using the site suggested by Null54 yields paint.net.4.2.11.install.zip, which I unzipped with my fave, 7-zip! Paint.net installs beautifully and is so easy from there -- I'm already working on my first picture in paint.net.
You call the program with certain parameters for setting up the winzip. In LabVIEW I guess you only can send the CMD commands to System Exec VI. Maybe you can try some forums talking about winzip, to get the correct CMD commands?
i guess they have two version of it , personal and licensed (or something like that). I googled a lot for getting the commands but ran out of luck.. may be now i will look in to the forums that you have mentioned about. And thanks a lot for the support
No problem, Guru! I'm sorry it didn't work, but I hope you find your answer in the forums. I pretty sure this has been done before, maybe in some other programming language like Java or Visual Basic. The commands and parameters should be the same if they call the program from CMD.exe
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