WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April
arstechnica.com
Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files.

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  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    511·
    10 months ago

    7-zip supports just about every archive type (including rar files) and it’s Free Open Source Software.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlOPM
      2111·
      10 months ago

      7-Zip can sometimes fail at extracting multiparty RAR archives and some ZIP files. Its better to have both to be able to extract anything that you download. I can say this confidently as someone who is both an internet archivist and someone fairly advanced at data compression, archival and benchmarking that I have done for over a decade.