- Extension
- .arc
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Compressed
- Developer
- Symantec
- PKWARE, Inc.
- Description
- Backup file created by Norton software products, such as Norton 360 and Norton Online Backup; contains a backup of computer files created automatically by the software; may include personal user files as well as system files.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/zip
