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.
Anytime I download a .zip file or create a compressed folder, my PC makes it a Winzip file, which is no good because I don't want to pay their fee to get the full version (the version I have was a trial one I obtained when I had this one .zip file that needed it to work).
Uninstall WinZip by going into "Programs and Features" (Vista / Windows 7) or "Add/Remove Programs" (XP). Unintalling WinZip should cause Windows to revert to it's native ZIP handling behavior. If the Windows ZIP handler doesn't meet your requirements, you can always install something else.
If you need WinZip for some specialist features, but want to use the inbuilt facilities in most case, just (for w8):- go to Control Panel- choose Programs- choose 'Make file types always open in a specific program'- scroll down for ".zip"- select 'change program' in the top right- choose 'windows explorer'
Windows 10: remove all winzip or any other zip programs through control panel, programs, etc.right-click on start button, settings, apps, default apps, choose default apps by file type, scroll down to .zip file type, click on it then click on "windows" as thw default app for opening .zip files
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.
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I'm trying to open files on the how to make a website tutorial. The files automatically try to open in winzip (which I don't have) and tells me I need to download the program. Can someone tell me how I can open these files using 7 zip or another method? Thank you
You didn't mention what kind of system you are using. But if it's Windows, you should be able to right-click on the file and select "Open With..." and then find 7zip in the list (assuming it is installed).
I then copied over the zip file to the remote server and ran unzip through there but surprisingly the unzipping took forever. My guess is that even though the files are already on the server and getting unzipped locally, that winzip doesn't realize this and is somehow using my local machine as a temp stage before unzipping to the remote directory.
The way you did it was that your local machine was doing the actual unzipping, just against data that was remote - what you need to do is run the unzip code on the remote server via something like RDP/VNC/SSH or similar - you need full access to the remote machine via one of these protocols first though ok.
Hi there we are researching an issue where 7za cannot unpack a file created in Winzip 11.x using best compression, we have tested with 4.5, 4.57 and 4.60 in command line (where we need it to unpack these files) and also in Graphical mode to no avail, the same error returns every time.
IMHO this is something that definitely needs attention at some point - understanding 7zip is free, but, the idea is encouragement of users moving to open source solutions where available. Any functionality loss, just or otherwise, is going to spook someone new to the FOSS community back into their comfort zone.
My whole point with the above post, is from what I can tell something *else* is wrong, besides simply some new compression algorithm introduced by winzip...so I don't think a fix now would necessarily b reak when v12 is released.
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