You read the title right. It's free, and it is not WinZip....it's better. First, a little history: way back in the '80's a guy named Phil Katz invented the ZIP format. It blew the socks off of every other compression utility around. Phil Katz (PK) named his program PKZIP. It was never sold, but offered as either free ware or shareware. Long story cut short...
he didn't register the name ZIP, nor did he patent the encryption algorithm. winZip saw the Windows market evolving and 'borrowed' his name/technology. Being somewhat of a techno-nerd, he was also into cryptography...hey numbers are numbers. He branched out into encryption software. He combined the two technologies into a product called Securezip. It is used by well over 100 US gov't agencies, including all branches of military, IRS, Neuc.Reg.Agcy, DofJ, etc,etc. He's making millions off of the govt (+ 60% of Fortune 100 Co.s), and being one of the original 'sharerware' guys he has put up an unpublicized site where you can download it for free:
pkwarecachefly.net/products/securezip/win/sz120018enf.exe.
Even if you're using WinZip, you should try it out. It has full blown 3DES and AES encryption + x.509 digital certs. with digital signatures and can Import/Export directly with MS Office and Outlook.
Try it out. It is a fully licensed retail version for FREE.
And, YES, back in the 80's I DID send my 'contribution' to the author of this program.
Re: The best ZIP program is now FREE
Any reason not to use 7-Zip instead, which has a better compression algorithm and is open source too?
Broken Link
Umm that link for PKzip is broken....
i've been using Winrar for a
i've been using Winrar for a long llong time and im hardly going to switch to anything else since im a novice user and satisfied with the product and service.
Hmm...
Why has this this FUD been posted here?
FACT:
SecureZip is the tradmarked, commercial product of PKWare (www.pkware.com)
30 day free evaluation; $29.95 license registration
Sadly, no, Mr. Katz isn't "making millions..."
Mr. Katz died in 2000.
"Seattle John", why would you believe the authentic product is available for FREE from that "OMG unpublicized" URL? As likely as not, any CHUMP who falls for this "hype" and downloads/installs that *exe ...winds up with a bundled trojan or rootkit as a free "bonus".
Spamming a link on the WOT
Edit: The wall of text looked like spam to me but you are a regular so I forgive you.
Wht would I believe...
Why would I believe it? Just go to securezip.com and see for yourself. It's still up, and still offering free licensed version. Do a whois on them and see it is a PKWARE site. And by the way, I'm out of meds.
I Use IZARC...
I Use IZARC...
Peace
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Jared Gray
apology
Oh, you *were* doing us a favor, by pasting the direct download link!
Above, as I read the URL, the dot (in pkwarecachefly) is missing... so I jumped to the conclusion that it was a scam.
So, please accept my apology & thanks for caring to share the info.
No problem
Yeah, my typing sometimes omits a char. or two. Nice offer if someone wants to give it a try. Evaluate several without having to pay first. Quite a few bigger software companies are doing this, or offering 'Trial copies'. If you try before you buy, then you won't be bothering their help-desks demanding your $$$ back if you're not happy..
I don't blame you for being sceptical. I usually do a 'whois' before I download anything. There are a LOT of knock-off sites out there ! Beware.
When I first saw the subject
When I first saw the subject line, I thought, "Huh? 7-Zip's always been free." :-)
7-Zip can be confusing for non-technical people, but if you can understand whatever it asks you, it's seriously powerful.
Rude
Woova,
That was completely insensitive of you to say anything to the extent of "Do us all a favor..go take your meds and lay down..." -
Just for something that was a mistake ON YOUR PART is NOTHING that should cause you to say anything to the extent of take your meds and lay down. If anyone needs help of any kind, it's you needing anger management classes.
Its because of people like you that I didn't want wot to be so persistent on getting more and more people to join wot.
I'm absolutely appalled at that. and how you continually to disagree with people's ideas. I know you apologized for getting mad because you thought it was a trojan, rootkit, or scam, but even if you were mad, saying anything like that is horrible, and unnecessary.
Plus, your title wtf, was completely uncalled for as well.
And sadly, YOU'RE not the only one who's changing the original nature of the wot community.
Several months ago however is when this started:
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/122
Soon after that, this came along:
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/121
Take a look at cpedly's post. He made many more posts as well simply critisizing wot and the community. Guess what happened? HE WAS BANNED.
The Next one is most recent besides this one, however I'm skeptical about the accuracy of it. Take a look at this forum post:
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/1250
Sami wrote: Note: Watch the Language.
Although I didn't see what he originally wrote, obviously something very bad was said, as i have never seen Sami have to edit a post.
This is why I had originally suggested in several forum posts (see links at bottom) that wot not be added to internet explorer, and not be focused so much on getting more people. Although I didn't mention specifically the possibility of too many people causing problems with the forum, I said several times not to expand wot too much. For example, almost 90 days ago I said,
"Wot isn't for everyone. Internet explorer has many more people then firefox. If the wot community becomes too big, ratings may become more and more inaccurate. There are only so many people who care about security, and migrating to internet explorer lessens the chances of those few people using wot."
In another post I said,
"Wot is a small community, being only on firefox, which is exactly what makes it so good. IF too many people use it, the ratings may become inaccurate, and could cause some things to go wrong."
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I think the Wot team needs to consider cutting down on the contests and trying to get people to tell everyone they know about wot, and also mention somewhere not to offend people in the forums.
Also woova, I do NOT want you to reply to this only to say that my idea of not focusing on merely increasing the size of the community isn't a good one, that what you did is okay, or that I "need to lie down and take my meds." If you do reply, it better be an apology.
If you don't stop with your mean comments, you'll be banned just like cpedly. What you have done makes me; and I'm sure many of us, want to say much worse to you than take your meds and lay down, but we UNLIKE YOU CAN CONTROL WHAT WE SAY.
It may not seem like it's THAT BAD for you to say it once and apologize, but not only will you probably do it again, it will get worse, and other people will do it too.
The Main times that I mentioned wot shouldn't try and expand too much was when they announced they were releasing it for internet explorer, allowing MANY more users to use it.
Here are two posts I posted a while ago containing the quotes I mentioned above:
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/128
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/758
Sincerely,
Ben
Edit: That was the most angry post I've ever posted :D (and you don't see me saying "Do us all a favor, take your meds and lay down!") -Ben
apologetic postscript -- mending fences
John graciously accepted the apology ~~ and I do think he would have recognized that as joking literary hyperbole even if it hadn't been typed in all caps.
Ben, I respect your passion toward fostering growth of the WOT community. Although it may not assauge your moralistic indignation at this point, I've edited the earlier post to remove my all-caps "yelling words". Now, If you, or the "many of us" you've mentioned, still want to chime in and poke me with a sharp stick... that's okay too. After venting, hopefully you too will edit your post to self-moderate its content (otherwise future visitors will hear how horrible I am, and I'll never be able to get a date to the prom!) Then let's shake paws and move forward.