I’m looking forward to deploying PowerArchiver 2023 to my users. Can you tell us when the MSI will be available for download and distribution?
Thanks.
Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9
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Hi there,
there were some security issues fixed in 7zip:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1165/
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1164/
As it seems, that PowerArchiver and PACL use the 7zip libraries, could you please update them to the latest version?
Hi,
From where I get PAVD2023.EXE? PowerArchiver 2023 tries to open it.
But it seems, it tries to download PAVD2021.EXE.
Thanks
I noticed that the version of ZPAQ used is older than the latest released 7.15 https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html also there seems to be a newer fork that adds several features https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
It would be useful to implement this latest version (it also maintains the same syntax and behavior as the latest official release if used the -715 flag) and add when opening a zpaq file a choice of the version of the files to show (e.g. as dummy folders represented the various versions present). Since any previous changes are stored with this format, it is possible to extract a snapshot of a certain date/version.
If I open a password-protected zipper file (created with WinRAR but I think that’s irrelevant), open it with PowerArchiver and run “Remove Encryption” on the same file, then reopen it and add a password with “Encrypt Archive,” the resulting archive will be protected with the old ZipCrypto algorithm and not AES as indicated.
(this can be verified, for example, by trying to open the archive files with Windows Explorer, which does not support the AES algorithm)
PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.
Solved FIPS
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activating FIPS by following the requester of the latest version .39 caused me a lot of trouble, because the culprit was not obvious
an extensions for ms visual studio was not prepared for FIPS and refused compiling and building
implications
blogs.msdn.microsoft -
Should work better now in version .41, please let us know and thanks for the report
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activating FIPS by following the requester of the latest version .39 caused me a lot of trouble, because the culprit was not obvious
an extensions for ms visual studio was not prepared for FIPS and refused compiling and building
implications
blogs.msdn.microsoftFIPS is meant to be activated only by users who have legal requirement to use FIPS, it is not recommended for anyone else.
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currently the decision to use FIPS is very prominent at every start of the program until you say yes, it should be reduced to a check mark in settings
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there is a setting in the Configuration menu that allows you set FIPS to ON, that turns on FIPS in PowerArchiver. The following confirmation dialog is confirms the enabling of FIPS in the Windows settings.
In my test, it appeared once, after clicking Yes, it did not appear anymore.
Is it continuously appearing for you?
Let us know, we’ll give it a thorough check.Thanks!
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there is a setting in the Configuration menu that allows you set FIPS to ON, that turns on FIPS in PowerArchiver. The following confirmation dialog is confirms the enabling of FIPS in the Windows settings.
In my test, it appeared once, after clicking Yes, it did not appear anymore.
Is it continuously appearing for you?
Let us know, we’ll give it a thorough check.Thanks!
it should never appear unless someone changed fips setting to ON… by default that should never appear, so we have to make sure it doesnt appear by default.
It is possible that someone left FIPS setting on in previous version of PA though.
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there is a setting in the Configuration menu that allows you set FIPS to ON, that turns on FIPS in PowerArchiver. The following confirmation dialog is confirms the enabling of FIPS in the Windows settings.
In my test, it appeared once, after clicking Yes, it did not appear anymore.
Is it continuously appearing for you?
Let us know, we’ll give it a thorough check.Thanks!
it should never appear unless someone changed fips setting to ON… by default that should never appear, so we have to make sure it doesnt appear by default.
It is possible that someone left FIPS setting on in previous version of PA though.
checked, with the default setting on, no confirmation dialog appears. When changed to On, the confirmation dialog appeared once.
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I never touched a FIPS setting, I even don’t know where to find it, the requester popped up at every start of version .39 until I said yes, after that PA started without the requester
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Thanks for the information @qrti
Could you please go to the Options tab and click the Set Defaults button.
That will set PowerArchiver to the default settings, does it occur then, after the default settings have been set?Thanks for your help!
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- 2019 .39 was not installed anymore
- so I uninstalled the current 2018 version
- and did a fresh installation of 2019 .39 version
- no FIPS requester
maybe the FIPS message was a settings conflict with the previous .33 version, I did an update from .33 to .39 and no fresh installation at that time
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I’m running 19.00.39, which was updated a couple of days ago, and since when I get the “Enable FIPS” popup. It’s impossible to turn it off in the AI setting screen, so I followed the recommendation to reset to Defaults which seems to fix it i.e. the popup doesn’t appear.
As far as I can judge, I have no need at all for FIPS to be enabled on this machine, and there seem to be a number of recommendations against enabling it on Windows.
I have my PA set up in a particular way (incorporating some of the points/features that were problematic in the test phase), and I’d hate to have to keep resetting it from defaults to my preferences.
Out of interest, I’d like to know this. I reset to defaults, then rejig my configuration to suit me, and then save the settings as the reg. entry. Would importing these settings always get me back to my configuration but minus FIPS and associated popup?
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I’m running 19.00.39, which was updated a couple of days ago, and since when I get the “Enable FIPS” popup. It’s impossible to turn it off in the AI setting screen, so I followed the recommendation to reset to Defaults which seems to fix it i.e. the popup doesn’t appear.
As far as I can judge, I have no need at all for FIPS to be enabled on this machine, and there seem to be a number of recommendations against enabling it on Windows.
I have my PA set up in a particular way (incorporating some of the points/features that were problematic in the test phase), and I’d hate to have to keep resetting it from defaults to my preferences.
Out of interest, I’d like to know this. I reset to defaults, then rejig my configuration to suit me, and then save the settings as the reg. entry. Would importing these settings always get me back to my configuration but minus FIPS and associated popup?
How do you mean it is impossible to turn it off? There is an Off setting there.
And yes, saving your HKCU settings and restoring them will always bring your full settings.
From next release, we will show warning only when in Enforced mode for FIPS.
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Should work better now in version .41, please let us know and thanks for the report
https://powerarchiver.cachefly.net/2019/powarc190041.exe