kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net — KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievable high compression rate. Unfortunately although it has a powerful compression rate, it also has high hardware requirements.It can compress a 430MB MS Office ISO to a 1.4MB file, which is small enough to fit on a floppy disk. (If you don't believe me see comments for link to the archive)
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macuyikoMar 28, 2006
MP3 size before: 2,65 Mb; size after: 2,51 Mb (at "extreme", 2 Gigs of RAM, taking 3 minutes). Song playable too here.Winrar size after (compression method: best): 2,57 Mb.So it seems to work, only taking exponentially more time for every Mb more to compress...
ashwinkpMar 29, 2006
fake. extracted in 7 hours aprox.. Setup.exe does not execute complains of digital signature mismatch. checked some of the files at least the headers seems appropriated for some of them. Just out of curiosity would like to try bloating a file with 0-255 repeatedly for 10 MB ( as it is compression takes long with the prog) and see the compressed size.
burnt1ce85Mar 29, 2006
fishy... i think it's a trojan horse that has an uncompressed size of 2 megs.
avidardikMar 29, 2006
This story does look amazing. And I started to doubt it when I read all the questioning posts above.HOWEVER, a quick Google search for this software may actually validate this piece of software.It's been downloaded thousands of times from download.com and Softpedia durong the single month it's been published. Both include rave reviews. Softpedia even absolutely guarantee's it's legit.In addition, there are dozens of mentions for this piece of software all over the Internet.Might this still be the real deal guys? I have yet to see a single proof otherwise!!!So this software is either a real revolution in compression or the most amazing scam ever.----------------------------<a class="user" href="http://avidardik.com">http://avidardik.com</a>
paroxsiticMar 30, 2006
Yeah. and PAQ6 is older. Matt has made ever better ones since.
Closed AccountMay 17, 2006
Just to recap: KGB is legitimate; the Office archive is not (most files in it are filled with 0xFF or other junk data). KGB's own website shows that it can compress pure text data to a minimum of 7.8% ; it is impossible that it could compress varied data comprising binaries and CAB archives (already compressed) to much less than that (specifically, 0.3%).
mac2492May 17, 2006
I could earn enough money to buy myself a "legal" copy before it finishes extracting on any normal computer. Based on the stats that I've seen - it'll take my computer about 15 hours or so to extract.
mac2492May 17, 2006
You would still need to leave it on overnight UNLESS you have some sort of supercomputer.
Closed AccountMay 18, 2006
Oh, and neither the KGB archiver nor the fake Office ISO archive are viruses, trojans, or anything like that. KGB connects to the internet to check for updates and to load an embedded (harmless) web page when you start it up, but then it does not connect any longer. The fake office ISO archive cannot make KGB connect to the internet; it does not contain any executable code. It is simply a hoax archive that is filled with junk files. Completely harmless.
dw817Jun 21, 2007
Greets:* The archive works, doesn't seem to be a Trojan. Here are some interesting findings though:It seems to compress small files (
dw817Jun 21, 2007
Greets: * The archive works, doesn't seem to be a Trojan. Here are some interesting findings though: It seems to compress small files (
darkdxOct 2, 2007
The files are corrupt
manas247Jan 22, 2008
it might be taking a lot of time, AGREEDbut it's cheap on the networki already have my machine on for about 8-10 hrs at home but i dnld things every secondif i can download everything fast, decompression can run simultaneously..........the archive here might be faulty but if i get even 20-30% better compression ratios than winzip than y not go for this!!!
vaginasuckersOct 1, 2008
Kgb archiver doesn't works on my PC Please help .
dj54Jun 22, 2009
extracted 160kb kgb archieve to 700mb file!!! however by the time it takes to extract i could have downloaded it over 10 times.