Winrar free this Sunday

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WinRAR Free This Sunday

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1. WinRAR Voted Overall Best Utility for SIAF People's Choice Award

The people have spoken and voted WinRAR as Best Overall Utility. Each
year the
Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) asks computer users from
all over
to vote for their favorite software.

Thanks for all your support and for voting for WinRAR. It was a great
honor for
us to receive such an award.

More information about the SIAF People's Choice Awards and all the
winners can
be found at »www.sic.org/peopleschoice.asp.

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2. To Say Thanks and to Celebrate: Get the Winner WinRAR 3.51 for FREE
on Sunday

In order to thank everyone who voted for us and made it possible for us
to
win this prestigious award, we are offering the WinRAR 3.51 single user
license
non upgradeable version this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 from 00:00
until
24:00 CET for absolutely FREE. Please click the following link which
will become
active on Sunday. Fill out the form on that page in order to receive
further
information via e-mail about how to get your FREE version of WinRAR.


The following link will apparently become active on Sunday during the
above time: www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility

CET is Euro time (6 hours ahead of EST)---so Sunday CET is Saturday 6pm
EST to Sunday 6pm EST [correct me if im wrong]

Cheers

The following link will apparently become active on Sunday during the
above time: www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility

CET is Euro time (6 hours ahead of EST)---so Sunday CET is Saturday 6pm
EST to Sunday 6pm EST [correct me if im wrong]
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around 29 Jul 2006 07:32:59 -0700), in
by way of Message-iD said:
WinRAR Free This Sunday
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[snip]

YOU say.

Why is it not possible to browse the win-rar.com website? Why does the
following (see below) Tracert show "www.win-rar.com" & "win-rar.com" as having
2 seperate IP addresses?

--- resolving host "win-rar.com", please wait...

win-rar.com [207.44.140.16]

--- resolving host "www.win-rar.com", please wait...

www.win-rar.com [67.15.155.41]

Why does "win-rar.com" resolve, via Tracert, to "relay.rarmail.de? Are we
talking redirect here (nice looking text, but download-link somewhere else)?

Why is the download-link not hosted on the Rarlabs.com site?

Naive and trusting people (the type of folks who often end-up getting SCREWED)
have been falling for this "dual-site" thing for a long time.
 
Why is it not possible to browse the win-rar.com website? Why does
the following (see below) Tracert show "www.win-rar.com" &
"win-rar.com" as having 2 seperate IP addresses?
Click to expand...
Why does "win-rar.com" resolve, via Tracert, to "relay.rarmail.de?
Are we talking redirect here (nice looking text, but download-link
somewhere else)?
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Why is the download-link not hosted on the Rarlabs.com site?
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Nice one, piglet.
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around 29 Jul 2006 07:32:59 -0700), in
alt.comp.freeware, "Mister2u" <[email protected]>, by way of
WinRAR Free This Sunday
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[snip]

YOU say.

Why is it not possible to browse the win-rar.com website? Why does the
following (see below) Tracert show "www.win-rar.com" & "win-rar.com"
as having 2 seperate IP addresses?

--- resolving host "win-rar.com", please wait...

win-rar.com [207.44.140.16]

--- resolving host "www.win-rar.com", please wait...

www.win-rar.com [67.15.155.41]

Why does "win-rar.com" resolve, via Tracert, to "relay.rarmail.de? Are
we talking redirect here (nice looking text, but download-link
somewhere else)?

Why is the download-link not hosted on the Rarlabs.com site?

Naive and trusting people (the type of folks who often end-up getting
SCREWED) have been falling for this "dual-site" thing for a long time.
Click to expand...

I thought this might be a scam. Besides which that site has been showing
"too many connections" all day. That's why I used a ficticious name and
address and an email account that I never use and can kill quickly.
 
Pay.Troll@ said:
Why is the download-link not hosted on the Rarlabs.com site?
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From http://www.rarlabs.com/misc.htm

"Since April 2002 it is win.rar GmbH's task to handle support, marketing
and sales related to WinRAR, rarlab.com and rarsoft.com. Click here for
detailed information about win.rar GmbH."

The 'Click here' link points to http://www.rarlabs.com/wgmbh.htm
The link to the left of the table points to win-rar.com

Sometimes it pays to read the actual site for an explanation before
diving in with the tracert/ping/nslookup... In the meantime, I'll be
enjoying my free copy of WinRAR ;)

HTH
 
<CUT_THE_CRAP>

It's fake, and most propabily virus, spyware or other malware.

You get fooled if you wanna get fooled...
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You've been fooled. ;) After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
Read this message
news:[email protected]
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In which many strange questions are asked, and none answered.
 
You've been fooled. ;) After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from


In which many strange questions are asked, and none answered.
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Sorry..., I was to quick in my response.

But there where just to many things which made it look like fake, and
normally, 99.99% of such announcements are fake.
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:11:14 +0100), in
alt.comp.freeware, Ben <[email protected]>, by way of
wrote: said:
Sometimes it pays to read the actual site for an explanation before
diving in with the tracert/ping/nslookup... In the meantime, I'll be
enjoying my free copy of WinRAR ;)
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[snip]

(the below-text also seen in a different reply, this group)

<quote>
Such as the (I've said this elsewhere, also) download-link appearing on a site
similar to the WinRar name, but not quite. I would not have a problem with
www.rarlabs.com, but www.win-rar.com ?

That raises my hackles, and suspicions. Trusting people (such as I once was;
double-clicked on an exe-file I shouldn't have and ended-up offline for close
to a _month_) are the ones who end up with Diety-knows-what on their boxes when
running exe's of doubtful parentage.
</quote>
 
Once Upon A Time (on or around Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:43:29 GMT), in
by way of Message-iD said:
< [snip]
Read this message
news:[email protected]
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In which many strange questions are asked, and none answered.
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You are a refreshing site to see, »Q«. Unlike with you, however, that site
raises my hackles, and suspicions. Trusting people (such as I once was;
double-clicked on an exe-file I shouldn't have and ended-up offline for close
to a _month_) are the ones who end up with Diety-knows-what on their boxes when
running exe's of doubtful parentage.
 
You've been fooled. ;) After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
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Alright, then; but why should I ask for WinRAR, if I can get unRARing
with other programs, like 7zip or filzip?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
Alright, then; but why should I ask for WinRAR, if I can get unRARing with
other programs, like 7zip or filzip?
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<Duh>
Because WinRAR is the ONLY program that can *create* .RAR files.
</DUH>

ps. from the time I post this reply. *you* have less than 12 hours left in
Sunday, July 30 CEST.
 
Gabriele said:
Alright, then; but why should I ask for WinRAR, if I can get unRARing
with other programs, like 7zip or filzip?
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True, one does not "need" WinRAR to extract RAR archives.
Including the above, there are may "unrar" utilities including
free command line UnRAR from RARLAB <http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm>

One advantage that RAR has over other archiving formats is the
employment of "recovery record" redundancy which may allow one to
reconstruct damaged archives.

Since RAR is a proprietary algorithm one may only create RAR archives
with the products available from RARLAB.

Bottomline.. to unRAR you don't need it, to RAR you do.
 
Mister2u said:
The following link will apparently become active on Sunday during the
above time: www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility
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First it was dead as a duck, then I could connect very very very
slowly but lost the connecton again during submitting the required
information. I tried again and again, could not connect. I've given
up. Either it's a lousy connection (on purpose?) or there are far too
many interested customers.

Chris Bantock
 
Chris said:
First it was dead as a duck, then I could connect very very very
slowly but lost the connecton again during submitting the required
information. I tried again and again, could not connect. I've given
up. Either it's a lousy connection (on purpose?) or there are far too
many interested customers.

Chris Bantock
Click to expand...

Same here!

The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site
might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need ..

Maybe it's nothing more than some marketing trick? I put nothing
past those who worship $. I'm not saying THESE do, merely making
a statement about observations made.
 
Tried pinging it:

C:\>ping www.win-rar.com

Pinging www.win-rar.com [67.15.155.41] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=48
Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=48
Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=48
Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 67.15.155.41:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 61ms, Maximum = 96ms, Average = 86ms

Tried the site referenced in my email:
Special One Day Offer - WinRAR voted Best Overall Utility
Your data has already been used to download the free WinRAR key!

If you are sure that you have not already successfully downloaded your free
WinRAR key at an earlier time, please contact support(at)win-rar.com.

© 2006 - win.rar GmbH

Server overload maybe??? It was noted here and on slickdeals.com and who
knows where else...
 
Tried pinging it:

C:\>ping www.win-rar.com

Pinging www.win-rar.com [67.15.155.41] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=48
Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=48
Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=48
Reply from 67.15.155.41: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 67.15.155.41:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 61ms, Maximum = 96ms, Average = 86ms

Tried the site referenced in my email:
Special One Day Offer - WinRAR voted Best Overall Utility
Your data has already been used to download the free WinRAR key!

If you are sure that you have not already successfully downloaded your
free WinRAR key at an earlier time, please contact
support(at)win-rar.com.

© 2006 - win.rar GmbH

Server overload maybe??? It was noted here and on slickdeals.com and
who knows where else...

Helen said:
Same here!

The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site
might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need ..

Maybe it's nothing more than some marketing trick? I put nothing
past those who worship $. I'm not saying THESE do, merely making
a statement about observations made.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

Quote from the main page, which I tried after two attempts that gave me
the "Action Canceled" message after 18%:

<quote>
Welcome to win-rar.com
Due to technical problems this site is offline untill 0:00h (CET) on July
30th, 2006.

If you wish to purchase a full WinRAR license which gives you all updates
and upgrades for free, please use the following link:

(skipped the commercial crap)

</quote>

Well, now *that* is a way to prevent too many keys to be shipped, just
close the site for the remainder of the day...
 
I saw that message at about 11:00 pm (-5:00 GMT) yesterday: the 29th. Yet,
later (before midnight), although almost timing out, got through...
 
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