Why WinZip?
I wouldn’t put it up to ignorance. My bet is that most people who install an archiving program do it because they specifically want that program. People who don’t really know anything about their computer don’t go looking for Photoshop or Firefox or Winamp or WinZip, they just use whatever Microsoft crap came with the machine. Average Joe User just double-clicks on the file and it opens, and he’s happy. The people who better understand the security issues or require features not present in the built-in stuff know enough to find an alternative. Power users aren’t going to be very pleased with a stripped-down bare bones archiver, web browser, photo editor or media player. I also use WinRAR. Specifically because (a) I know for sure the person to whom I most often mail RAR archives has a copy, and (b) my mail servers both continually reject any attachments that are .zip or .exe files. So, no mailing compressed unless it’s not a zip compression and no mailing self-extracting files. A contin
