Re: Why Is Anybody Using WinRAR?

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

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Why would anybody bother with .rar any more?
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Compatibility?

 
The more common reason is that rar is used in "the scene" for video
files (I believe because it was first, way back, with the ability to
split a larger than X size file into X sized chunks as part of creating
the archive).  And then taking the resulting "rars" and upon
extraction, recreating that "larger than X" file.
 

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Probably for Windows viruses too.  I am getting rar
attachments in spam and all the rar files contain a
Windows exe File.  To me, these are obvious viriuses.

I have not used any M/S systems for a very long time, so
all I can do is hex dump the exec.  So I cannot tell what
they will attempt to do.


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