Honestly, I haven't used WinZip in ages. I don't think that that sort of program should cost money, and I didn't want to ``steal'' it from NicoMak, so I found an alternative and I haven't looked back. I use an old version of UltimateZip on my home PC before it became adware (though non-invasive, supposedly). On my friend's computer, I think I installed ZipCentral.

Tangentially, have you looked at NoNags? Given that when I'm looking for some little utility I don't want to pay for it, nor do I want adware or spyware, NoNags does a really good job of showing only absolutely free stuff. Makes it that much easier to filter through the chaff when it's already been done for you.