7-Zip Console

Win 10 is not a solution. I am running win 10 Pro and this vulnerability still exists. When will there be a resolution to this problem? Need some help here, I don't want to risk my system because of compressing or decompressing a file. How can we(users) fix this?

Now it's three months gone by since I asked for assistance. Yikes!

Update your version of 7-zip.  That vulnerability was "before [version] 16.00."  7-zip is now at version 16.04.

http://7-zip.org/

If you don't see 7-zip in Programs and Features, then you don't have it.

Windows 7 has a native compression and extraction utility for *.zip files.  You use this from the right-click context menu:  (Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder) and (Extract all).  The functionality is in one or more DLL files (Zipfldr.dll and LZ32.DLL).  I'm not positive, but I strongly suspect that whatever the bug was in 7-zip that is the basis for the vulnerability you mentioned, it is not present in any of the Windows DLL files.  I certainly have not seen any suggestion to the contrary.

7-zip is a third-party compression/decompression utility.  It is much more versatile than the native Windows utility: 

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
• Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

7-zip also compresses files a bit more than the Windows utility.  See http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/7-zip-vs-winzip-vs-winrar/

If you want 7-zip, get it here: http://7-zip.org/ (and if you do actually have an older version, the new version will overwrite the old one).  You can find out a bit more about 7-zip here: http://7-zip.org/faq.html

OK, thank you for that extra info.

Here's my mystery, when I ran the Kaspersky vulnerability scan after a Win 10 Pro upgrade, the 7-zip vulnerability came up again!

Downloaded the 1604 v. Am installing that and then I will run the KTS scan again. We'll see what happens.

I see that my Win 10 version is 1607. Is there a more recent version I should be running? I don't know if that could be an issue or not.

Trying to get up or keep up to speed with Microsoft's future for us. Learning as I go.

Thank you for your assistance. 

I have no idea what Kaspersky would have indicated an issue with 7-zip if 7-zip was not installed.

I have rather determinedly kept away from Windows 10, but AFAIK, the latest build is the "Windows 10 Creators Update," also known as version 1703.  Because this is being "rolled out in phases" starting April 11, your system may not have received the update yet.  See

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-info.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/04/11/how-to-get-the-windows-10-creators-update/#7OI67R35v8qHXzRh.97

Read at least this one:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3169615/microsoft-windows/what-you-need-to-know-about-windows-10-versions-and-lifespan.html