7-ZIP – Good choice against WinZip, WinRAR

You might have observed, WinZip/WinRAR is trail version. You will find crack/serial over internet and probably download virus and make your system infected. Rather doing these sucking things, my personal advice to switch over to a very good alternative against winzip and winrar – 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a free and fully loaded application supporting formats such as: – 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TARc both packing / unpacking; while ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z only unpacking. 7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.
                                                 

Features of 7 Zip:-

• 7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.
• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plug-in for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 74 languages.