Winrar 3.80 causes windows update to stop working?!

[Rhonda85]

I have installed winrar 3.80 and afterwards I notice that windows update will not work. It says that it is turned off (even though it is on). I cannot even manually do a windows update thru internet explorer, it gets an error. If I uninstall winrar the updates work okay. I am running xp home sp3. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[lxskllr]

I have no idea. You could use 7Zip as a workaround though.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

I'm running XP SP3 and I do not have that issue.

 

[evident]

hmm that doesnt seem to make sense. did you try to install winrar again afterwards?

 

[Rhonda85]

I installed winrar 3.8 about two weeks ago and the next day I noticed the windows security balloon saying that auto updates are turned off. I could not turn them on, so I manually tried to do a windows update and got an error, rebooted.. no help. The only change I made was installing winrar, so I uninstalled it, then went to windows update and worked fine. About two weeks later I installed the program again, same exact problem, once I uninstalled it, windows update worked fine... Weird! Time to format and reinstall lol.

 

[networkman]

Although I don't use WinRar very often, I noticed the same thing on one of my rigs too. Jumped back to an earlier set point with 3.7, and it works fine. Guess I skip 3.8. :/

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Strange, what would WinRAR do to Windows if it stops it from upgrading? I'd steer clear from them.

 

[accguy9009]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
I have no idea. You could use 7Zip as a workaround though.

7Zip works great!

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: accguy9009

Originally posted by: lxskllr
I have no idea. You could use 7Zip as a workaround though.

7Zip works great!

yup, use 7zip...much better program.

 

[mechBgon]

I saw a report today that there is a Trojanized version of WinRAR being promoted from a fake Download.com site. Here's a good write-up: http://securitylabs.websense.c...ntent/Blogs/3264.aspx#

When downloading software, go to the actual software author's own site for legit download links.

 

[magicrat03]

WinRAR 3.80 working fine here on Vista. Windows Update has been since fine since I upgrade to 3.80 last November. Downloaded from http://www.rarlab.com/ of course.

- mechBgon but that link said it was free forever!