WinRAR 3.61 Released
September 14, 2006
win.rar GmbH and rarlab.com are proud to announce the release of WinRAR 3.61. The new WinRAR 3.61 fixes two vulnerabilities that were just recently discovered.
Bugs Fixed
a) Corrected a bug in multithreaded text compression module, which under some circumstances might result in corrupt archived data.
This bug was present only in multithreaded mode and only in WinRAR 3.60. RAR versions for other platforms are not affected.
b) Resolved a compatibility issue preventing WinRAR 3.60 to run in Windows 95.
About WinRAR:
WinRAR is a powerful archiver and archive manager and the best compression tool on the market. RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 % better than ZIP files.
WinRAR's main features include:
- Very strong general and multimedia compression
- Archive protection from damage
- Solid compression
- Processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives
- Scanning archives for viruses
- Programmable self-extracting archives (SFX)
- Authenticity verification
- NTFS and Unicode support
- Strong AES encryption
- Command line and graphical interface
- Drag-and-drop facility
- Wizard interface
- Theme support
- Folder tree panel
- Multithread support
- Windows x64 shell integration.
WinRAR is available in over 40 different languages and runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Server 2003. The command line version RAR is available for Linux, DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and MAC OS X. Pocket RAR, the FREE WinRAR version for Pocket PCs and the new WinRAR for U3 complete the compression product range. So WinRAR simply is "The Size Solution".
