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WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive.

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[–] style99@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The thing is, you only need WinRAR if you were creating an archive. You never need it for extracting archives. For that, you just use pretty much any other archiver.