Zip Program

Greetings esteemed Major Geeks personnel and screaming geekomania fans. I was using cam unzip to password protect bank and credit card statements but its not working with vista and the new version is shareware. I is thinkin' about using tugzip but wondering if the newest version is fully compatible with vista since it was released in april '08. What say you all?

 

g'day trek

having a look at their web site seems not much has happened with tug zip since 2008.maybe this program will meet your needs and it works with vista and win7 its called izarc its free to use " http://www.izarc.org/index.html ". hope this helps good luck.

 

There is few programs that you can download and use for free.

Izarc
7Zip

These programs are free for so long and then you need to pay for the software.

Winrar
Winzip

 

A safer way of storing passwords etc is to use an encrypted container, rather than a password protected zipfile. I use Cryptainer LE and recommend it.

 

Maybe its time I started working with encryption. Awhile back I researched truecrypt but it seemed a bit excessive just to lockdown some small files.The cryptainer le utility seems simple and easy to use according to the website.Has anyone else used cryptainer le? I'd feel better running this program if it could be downloaded from the MG website but I don't see it anywhere.

 

Steganos has lock note for text files 'for XP or better' maybe Win 7.
http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview/

 

Thanks for the great advice everyone. I'm gonna give cryptainer a try. If Halo uses it its gotta be good.