Winzip is a file decompression/compression software.
I bought it for the first time years ago. It worked OK.
As I did not have any decompression/compression software, I ended up buying a Winzip license. The software still works OK.
The problem is that when you install Winzip in your computer, it installs, without your permission, a toolbar that gets attached to both Firefox and Chrome.
To start with, this toolbar is totally useless. What it does do, however, is cover the uppermost part of the browser, so that if you are using certain types of software (especially editing sites and blogs), the stupid toolbar obliterates an essential area of the screen.
And getting rid of the thing is a bugger, for it does not offer a disable option. Before you find out all you have to go into Chrome’s extensions, and disable it from there, you might even be compelled by other dishonest folk, to purchase software to remove it. One such software is Speedy PC, which once used in earnest, will cause you problems, as reported by people on the Internet. Too bad google leads one right into it. People have reported spending hundreds of dollars to remove the software, which initially, costs about 30 bucks. BEWARE, do not trust google’s results as trustworthy.
Thus, for a matter of principle, don’t buy it. It is just a poor excuse for adware .I spent the money already, so I will keep it. Without the toolbar.
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