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Is 7zip safe?

Anonymous
2012-06-11T20:10:10+00:00

Is the software 7zip safe or is it malware/spyware?

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-06-11T20:25:10+00:00

    Is the software 7zip safe or is it malware/spyware?

    From www.7-zip.org ???

    Good free product, great for the normal home user.  May or may not be approved in some super-secure locations - but that is to be expected.

    It is not malware/spyware.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-06-11T20:26:21+00:00

    If you're getting it from here:  http://www.7-zip.org/  it is. I guess CNET download would be good, too, since it probably links back to there (or should have a link to there).

    SC Tom

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-06-22T11:10:18+00:00

    Again, as mentioned several times in this conversation that has now spanned over half a decade... If you get 7-zip from the source (www.7-zip.org) and NOT from questionable sites : good product, I'd say better than most (including winRAR) compression products.

    If you download it from other sites (only get it from www.7-zip.org) you run the risk of getting a wrapped product - done by those who are taking advantage of some people's ignorance of getting said product by any other manner than a random web search and clicking on the first link and/or some site tht seemingly lists and possibly compares such products and allows a user to download direct from them.  In other words - a scam taking advantage of others.

    Get 7-zip from 7-zip.org and it is free, external application free, cross-platform and has one of the best set of compression and decompression algorithms available.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-15T21:52:51+00:00

    Still wiser to get it direct from those who make it instead.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-20T18:04:52+00:00

    I wanted to download a qbo editor from file.downloadatoz.com and clicked download, and clicked again on a button to download the setup file.  Then 7zip was listed as the download installer.  I ended up with a message from Norton 360 that Trojan.ADH2 was blocked.  It also downloaded the following programs which I did not want 1) SmartPC Cleaner 2) SLOW-PC Fighter 3) Driver Genius 4) Severe Weather Alerts.  I was able to uninstall them but my Windows 8.1 froze on a browser and I had to reboot.  OK now.  I had previously downloaded 7zip with some additional unwanted software.  So I would underscore the advice to only download 7zip it from the originators website.  BTW never did get the program I wanted to download.

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