I looked a while ago to find alternatives when some of these issues came up a while ago but I haven't found any other viable alternatives. I thought PeaZip might be a good option until finding out that it is also based on 7-Zip.

The one tool that I did find useful during this search though is https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI.

Apparently in Win10, Microsoft introduced a compact.exe commandline tool that transparently compresses files/folders. The above tool is a GUI for it. It's not a replacement for a proper archiver but it's a nice tool to compress things like games and other large programs that need to stay in place.

Honestly, I dunno. I've been using 7-zip for as long as I can remember. It wasn't until recently when I learned about about the lack of ASLR / NX bits / etc. etc in the program.

I can understand Igor like... not knowing about these features or whatever. But its been months / years since he was notified about security and yet he doesn't take any corrective steps.

I'm seriously considering to pay for WinRAR. No joke.