Detecting vulnerabilities in WinZip

As soon as WinZip Computing upgraded WinZip to version 11 with many new features, security experts discovered a serious flaw in WinZip version 10, which could allow hackers to attack Windows computers. run the application.

According to the warning posted on the Danish security site Secunia, the vulnerability is ranked at "extremely serious" level, located in the FileView ActiveX driver called by WinZip every time the application is activated.

Through this vulnerability, every time a user is tempted to access a malicious website created by a hacker, the computer will be attacked and hackers can install malicious software, such as Trojans or spyware. , Into the system.

Soon after being informed about the vulnerability, WinZip Computing has fixed the error with the upgrade of WinZip 10 (build 7245). It is known that this vulnerability does not affect previous versions, such as WinZip 9.