Help!! Winrar problems!!

[HamsterLover8]

Hello!!!

I've got a little bit of a problem. I just tried to download Winrar (from the official website from a link on this site) and clicked on the correct file. It then said (running on Windows 7, by the way) in the yellow and white box at the bottom, like usual, "Running security scan" and THEN decided to flash up in red "This program is not commonly downloaded and could harm your computer". Now, I'm not greatly observant in times like that, but through my panic attack (I'm constantly worried viruses are going to attack the computer then take over the world), I DEFINATELY did not see a "save anyway" or whatever button. I just pressed delete. And then the Norton box came up to scan it and said "Unable to get file information". The computer seems fine luckily, so the world ain't gonna end yet!

What I don't understand is that my mum's work computer has Winrar - also a Windows 7 one - and they are REALLY stuffy about downloading stuff onto there.

Please please please help!!!! Thanks! :blink:

[whiterider]

WinRAR is perfectly safe. Reread the error message - Norton or IE (both of which are notoriously unreliable anyway) recognises that it's not a common program. That's all. It doesn't mean there's actually anything wrong with it. :)

[HamsterLover8]

Ohhhh.....looks like I freaked out unneccassarily there then....thanks! :D

[whiterider]

It's easily done! The important thing to remember is that when you get an error message, that means things have stopped - so you generally don't need to respond quickly, you can take your time and think it through a bit. :)

And if you're particularly worried about viruses, then dare I ask why the heck you're using "security" software as useless as Norton? :p I would certainly recommend switching to a reliable program, such as Avast! (http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download) or AVG (http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage) (the free versions of which are all you'll ever need).

[pogitte]

Up till a few days ago I had no problems unpacking and installing zip or rar files into my game. I'm not sure how or when things went wrong, but now I'm not able to get the unpacked files into my game. When I download from this site I get my rar file, which is no news. I usually just click to open it to get the package file (with the green diamond) and which I just double-click to get it into my game. Does this make sense so far?
Now nothing really happens after I double-click. Sigh.....I'm not really into computers and stuff....and sometimes I cannot grasp what you guys write to each other ;-)
Could someone please tell me what I should do to be able to get my downloads into my game? I have both Winzip and Winrar (also I had the 7zip? I think it's called) but no matter what I do, I get nothing..... :cry: thank you!