WinRAR.exe
By Alexander Roshal
Warning 5 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of WinRAR.exe.
Overview
winrar.exe has 44 known versions, the most recent one is 3.71. winrar.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 927.72 KB. The programs Compresor WinRAR, WinRAR archiver and Hama Webcam Suite have been observed as installing specific variations of winrar.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0005% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 7.72 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 4.4 KB per minute for reads and 5.75 KB per minute for writes.
What is winrar.exe?
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
About winrar.exe (from Alexander Roshal)
“There is no better way to compress files for efficient and secure file transfer, faster e-mail transmission and well organized data storage. Over 500 million users world-wide make WinRAR the worlds's ”
Details |
File name: | winrar.exe |
Publisher: | Alexander Roshal |
Description: | WinRAR archiver |
Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\winrar\winrar.exe |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of winrar.exe.)
Full version of the Hama Webcam Suite, consisting of: Arcsoft Webcam Companion 2, Media Impression and Magic i Visual Effects to manage and edit photos at the PC.
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“WinRAR is one of the most efficient compactors known and available, with the main highlight compatibility with various formats. In addition, while using the program you have more space available to st...”
“WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ...”
WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary....
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WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility that is able to create RAR archives natively. WinRAR supports RAR (WinRAR native conversion format) and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ...
WinRAR version 4 speeds up decompression by up to 30%. Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT are no longer supported; the minimum Windows version required is Windows 2000. WinRAR is a shareware file ...
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Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of winrar.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Shell open command
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 5 of them detected the following malware.
Antivirus engine | Engine version | Detection | File version |
Antiy Labs AVL |
0.1.0.1 |
Worm/Win32.WhiteIce |
3.41 |
eSafe |
7.0.17.0 |
Win32.FakeAlert.In |
3.70 |
eSafe |
7.0.17.0 |
Win32.CloakedMalware |
3.71 |
Trend Micro HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
TROJ_GEN.RFFH1FI |
3.71 |
Trend Micro HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
TROJ_GEN.RCEH1GH |
3.70 |
All file variations of winrar.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Microsoft Windows XP |
38.24% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
30.39% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
10.78% |
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Windows 7 Home Premium |
6.86% |
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Windows 7 Starter |
2.94% |
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Windows Vista Home Premium |
2.94% |
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Windows 8 Pro |
1.96% |
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Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.96% |
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Windows 8 Single Language |
0.98% |
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Windows Server 2008 Standard |
0.98% |
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Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.98% |
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Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.98% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 11.11% of winrar.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
ASUS |
20.29% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
15.94% |
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Toshiba |
11.59% |
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Acer |
7.25% |
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GIGABYTE |
7.25% |
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Sony |
5.80% |
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Intel |
5.80% |
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Gateway |
5.80% |
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Lenovo |
2.90% |
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Compaq |
2.90% |
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Samsung |
2.90% |
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Sahara |
2.90% |
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American Megatrends |
2.90% |
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MSI |
2.90% |
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Dell |
2.90% |
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