WinRAR patched 19-year-old bug that left millions vulnerable

The popular compression software WinRAR on Windows PC had a dangerous error for the last 19 years, which has been cured long after a patch. 

WinRAR has used 50 million users. Now a security research company, Checkpoint Research, has discovered an error. According to Checkpoint Research, if the extension of the ACE file is done by extension extension, hackers can extract their virusatic programs from the computer's startup folder from WinRAR. 

 After this, these programs start walking on computer as well. Checkpoint Research said this error has been for 19 years.

After checkpoint research post, WinRAR has released this error by releasing a patch. WinRAR has terminated ACE archives support in version 5.70 beta 1.

 The company used third-party tool to integrate ACE AIRCO, which was not updated since 2005.

No such report came in, which addresses the use of this error.