And why not 7zip?
you folks need to check this stuff out and REMOVE it IMMEDIATELY. Jzip is nothing but spyware and other assorted invasive crap yet you list it as being recommended. This is an abomination
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you folks need to check this stuff out and REMOVE it IMMEDIATELY. Jzip is nothing but spyware and other assorted invasive crap yet you list it as being recommended. This is an abomination
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and it seems others agree with you about this software dating back to 2008;
http://download.cnet.com/jZip/3000-2250_4-10730326.html?tag=rb_content;main
I wouldn't have touched it myself after reading those.
I checked their Home Page at http://www.jzip.com/ and they assure everyone that their product has "No Adware / No Spyware / No Pop-Ups / No Trojans"
If that Download.com software is the same version as the one now offered at their home page, then perhaps they have cleaned up their act.
As a test I have downloaded their home page version and scanned it with my own anti-virus and it comes up clean. As a double check I uploaded that file to Jotti's Virusscan web site for a comprehensive check against a range of anti-virus scanners and none of them found anything. Their results here;
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en-gb/scanresult/d564dfd4bb18aea9cd74142769f3f0f32777c365
Interestingly I also downloaded the CNET Download offered file. Although the same name it is a smaller file than the home page one. I did the same tests, and again came up with nothing;
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en-gb/scanresult/4cafe92c8ed48c8d28c993adfe65216f0f168552/b7eff9615a75b7699f08fda039d3c5efe38afd12
although to be exact, Jotti told me this was the same file I had tried as before. It wasn't because the file size was different.
That said, the Jotti results pages both mention "BINARYRES" and "WiseSFXDropper".
BINARYRES discussed here; http://forums.techarena.in/antivirus-software/663495.htm and WisSFXDropper mentioned here; http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?md5=8fbeb8af18b254bb65ea333210523ba5
On the whole not something I would trust. I have passed this on to the Forum Admin.
Mark
standard procedure of checking for malware and the items came up as false positives.
Thanks!
-Lee