Friday 3 February 2012

File Compressors and Packers/Unpackers (Free)

#6 File Compressors and Packers/Unpackers (Free)

      The first one in this category is the 7zip archiver, which is famous for its proficiency in terms of compression ratio. In the words of a famous website:
    "7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip license.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

The main features of 7-Zip

High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
Supported "

source: www.freedownloadmanager.org


      The second one in this category is the Michael Hardy's UPX miracle. It is again free with the ability to scramble .dll, .exe etc. In terms of the of a review:

"UPX Miracle is an ASPack-like GUI shell for UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables). Among it's capabilities are .dll, .exe, .ocx and many other system files packing/unpacking, scrambling those files to protect from unauthorized reverse engineering, full drag&drop support, Skinnable Interface and all of this absolutely FREE."
 source: www.fredownloadmanager.org

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