What's the best file compression tool out there? According to a recent Lifehacker poll, it's not even close: 7-Zip blew away a crowded field to take home a majority of the votes. Though 7-Zip only ...

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What makes the threat particularly dangerous is not just because it is being utilized, but also because it allows a person to remotely execute malware on an computer. 7-zip, one of the world's most ...

File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...

We often work with compressed file formats, but are not always sure how they work and which format is better. By default, we mostly use an archive file format like ZIP or RAR. These formats squeeze ...

A ' ZIP bomb (highly compressed file bomb) ' that looks like a ZIP file of tens of kilobytes but takes up a huge amount of file space when unzipped is a ZIP file that stores a ZIP file inside a ZIP ...

We use ZIP files every day in many unseen ways. They make it possible for us to compress files into a smaller package. This compression format revolutionized the way information could spread between ...