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Supertrotter

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IT geeks - What is WinRAR?

My mum has noticed a program on her PC called 'WinRAR' and I haven't a clue what it is or what it does.

Anyone know? Ta from mi' mum! Runner up - 2009 Best Avatar Award
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Wed Sep 17 2008 10:30am

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RAR files are a compressed file format, a little like zip files. WinRAR is a Windows RAR program, equivalent to WinZip. Why it's on your mum's machine, who knows?

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Wed Sep 17 2008 10:33am

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S, when she tried to open it her avast protection said the program was trying to connect via her broadband. Is this an automatic thing checking for updates? Runner up - 2009 Best Avatar Award
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Wed Sep 17 2008 10:34am

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Very probably, I don't have it here. A lot of apps do though. You should find you can disable it....

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Wed Sep 17 2008 10:51am

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It's just a compression programme, the same idea as Winzip.

Here's a link to a page if you want more info.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2128941/winrar 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
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Wed Sep 17 2008 2:52pm

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Wed Sep 17 2008 5:27pm

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Resident boffins, I seem to have a problem with my PC accessing this site only.

When it opens a new page, it always seems to freeze for about 5 seconds of so then carry on as normal.

It doesn't do this when accessing during the week on my work laptop.

Both machines have Kaspersky Internet Security installed, both are Windows XP, both running Internet Explorer.

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Sat Oct 04 2008 5:02pm

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Try loading Mozilla Firefox and running it - it's free and doesn't suffer from anywhere near as many glitches as IE

Also try running Spybot Search and Destroy, it's also available for free from here http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
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Sat Oct 04 2008 5:46pm

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The usual clearing down of temp internet files, cookies etc may do the trick for you

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Mon Oct 06 2008 10:33am

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Thanks for the feedback

On the subject of knackered PC's, since installing Spybot, it now seems my Kaspersky wont update!

Keep getting this...

Update
------
Update size: 0 bytes
Traffic: 0 bytes
Transfer rate: 0.00 Kb/s
Start time: 06/10/2008 16:09:34
Duration: 00:00:05
Finish time: 06/10/2008 16:09:39

Events
------
Event Object Name Time Traffic
----- ----------- ---- -------
Selecting update source http://127.0.0.1 06/10/2008 16:09:34
File downloading error: internal error (0x80000040) i0607g.xml 06/10/2008 16:09:36
Selecting update source http://localhost 06/10/2008 16:09:36
File downloading error: internal error (0x80000040) i0607g.xml 06/10/2008 16:09:39
Update finished with error: internal error (0x80000040) 06/10/2008 16:09:39

Settings
--------
Name Value
---- -----
Run mode Manual
FTP passive mode Yes
Connection timeout 15 sec
Use proxy server No

Don't suppose this means anything to anyone?

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Mon Oct 06 2008 3:15pm

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Sounds like spybot has stopped Kaspersky updating , if you have let it auto protect then this might be why. Have a look in the settings ( cant remember off hand where ) but there must be a list of things that have been stopped from accessing internet etc ... Very much like Firewall. Alternatively turn spybot off then update antivirus to prove the point. Ive never had this problem with Spybot but its possible.

Mon Oct 06 2008 5:20pm

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Right...

I've uninstalled Spybot as it seems this is what has caused the issue.

It removed most files but said remaining files had to be removed manually so I did this however one file was locked and I can't delete it.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled kaspersky and still it won't update!

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Tue Oct 07 2008 9:42am

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ST - this works for me to remove those stubborn files. And it's FREE

http://www.emco.is/products/move-on-boot/features.php

Tue Oct 07 2008 11:35am

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Thanks tumshie

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