

While about 35% of users of WinZip Driver Updater come from the United States, it is also popular in Germany and Australia. Relative to the overall usage of users who have this installed on their PCs, most are running Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 10.

The installed file WINZIPDUCheckUpdate.exe is the auto-update component of the program which is designed to check for software updates and notify and apply them when new versions are discovered. The setup package generally installs about 37 files and is usually about 27.14 MB (28,460,009 bytes). It is an ad-supported software that may be installed on your computer when you visit an infected website or open a malicious email attachment. The primary executable is named winzipdu.exe. WinZip Driver Updater is a fake update program for the WinZip self-extracting archive tool. The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). During setup, the program creates a startup registration point in Windows in order to automatically start when any user boots the PC. The most common release is 1.0.648.15384, with over 98% of all installations currently using this version. WinZip Driver Updater is a software program developed by WinZip Computing.
