CNET Editors' review
When all you've is got a hammer, every problem looks suspiciously like a nail. RarZilla is a great little utility for automatically unraring RAR archives, but it doesn't do much else. Depending on whether that's all you're looking for, RarZilla is either just the tool you need or woefully inadequate.
The program does a wonderful job of unzipping--sorry, unraring--RARs, and it provides three methods for achieving that goal. You can select the "RarZilla!" option from the context menu associated with any RAR file in Windows Explorer, you can double-click the RAR, or you can drag and drop the RAR onto the program interface. To aid in the last one, the program is permanently set to live on top unless you minimize it. We found that annoying, but your mileage may vary. It extracts the compressed files to the same folder in which the RAR lives. RarZilla is squarely aimed at those users who predominantly use the RAR format. Fans of other archive formats should look elsewhere for an extractor or a traditional archiving/unarchiving tool.
Publisher's Description
From Philipp Winterberg:
RarZilla Free Unrar is a beautiful decompression tool for RAR-archives that supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files. Decompression can be started by drag 'n' drop, double click or shell integrated context menu. To speed the whole process up, RarZilla has the option to define a default output folder or a default password or both.
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"Great little app!"
Version: RarZilla Free Unrar 3.33
Pros
Fast and really easy to use. :-) Oh, and FREE...
Cons
The installer might offer you an Ask Toolbar, that you might not need - but you can decline that offer with one click, so it's no big deal...
Summary
If you want to unrar - this is your tool. ;-)
AVG threw some false alarms in the past. Sometimes Antivirus scanners report that a program is infected with a Virus or Trojan, even when the program is not really infected with any malicious code. This kind of problem is known as "False Positive" or "False Alert"... You might want to check your files at virusscan.jotti.org or at www.virustotal.com.
I scanned RarZilla with Jotti and VirusTotal and it is clean:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/4a9f3506454fa0ab2f4dbba21637ed5540d1f7a7
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=e3ef624a3e680d91d3535adfe8e2a296e4cde528abc2dd89e78cc72a399f1d81-1323216190
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