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Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug (techcrunch.com)
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[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

7zip exists and is free.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

7zip will unpack rar files? I've used it for years and never knew.

[–] youstolemyname@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It'll unpack everything

Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, XAR and Z.

https://www.7-zip.org/

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

You may have problems unpacking RAR of latest format versions with 7zip. It's been some time since I encountered that.

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