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WinRAR.exe
WinRAR by win.rar GmbH (Signed)
| Version: | 5.0.5 |
| MD5: | 8d763e5ae7f5937c8c9b13d43c01b37e |
| SHA1: | 7171ee795006e128fafd236a10ed40b138f0938c |
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 win.rar GmbH)
“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 ”
Overview
winrar.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. This is typically installed with the program WinRAR 5.00 beta 5 (32-bit) published by win.rar GmbH. The file is digitally signed by win.rar GmbH which was issued by the COMODO CA Limited certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | winrar.exe |
| Publisher: | Alexander Roshal |
| Product name: | WinRAR |
| Description: | WinRAR archiver |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\winrar\winrar.exe |
| File version: | 5.0.5 |
| Size: | 1.18 MB (1,235,544 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/18/2013 4:05 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | win.rar GmbH |
| Authority (CA): | COMODO CA Limited |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, June 14, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.415815 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility that supports RAR, and ZIP and can unpack ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE and 7z compressed archives. Version 5 uses the RAR5 archive format that cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. This format features a maximum 1GB dictionary (only in 64bit version), better multicore support, it removes multimedia, text and itanium binaries special compression algorithms.
Behaviors
Shell open command
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
28.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
24.00% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
9.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
6.00% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
5.50% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
5.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
4.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.50% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview |
0.50% |
|
| 23 other Windows OS version |
Distribution by country
United States installs about 22.11% of WinRAR.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
22.39% |
|
| ASUS |
18.66% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
11.57% |
|
| Acer |
10.82% |
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| Lenovo |
9.70% |
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| Toshiba |
6.72% |
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| Intel |
5.22% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
3.73% |
|
| Compaq |
2.99% |
|
| Sony |
2.24% |
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| Samsung |
1.87% |
|
| Alienware |
1.49% |
|
| American Megatrends |
1.12% |
|
| Gateway |
0.75% |
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| MSI |
0.75% |
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