You likely don't realize that the third-party tools you just use to extract files are no longer needed. Microsoft has been updating Windows for years to the point where you don't need any other ...

A recently fixed WinRAR vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install the RomCom malware. The flaw is a directory traversal vulnerability that was ...

Hackers are adding malicious functionality to WinRAR self-extracting archives that contain harmless decoy files, allowing them to plant backdoors without triggering the security agent on the target ...

Distributing malware inside password-protected archives has long been one of the main techniques used by attackers to bypass email security filters. More recently, researchers have spotted a variation ...

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Back in the days of 56-kbps modems and 1.44MB floppies, compressing files was a necessity. These days, bandwidth and storage are less of a concern, but there are still reasons to package files into ...

I have created a few self extracting archives using winrar but windows does not associate the winrar SFX icon with the file. The default .exe icon is shown instead. That's the nature of explorer. If ...