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WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Downvote all you want, but you can configure WinRAR to decompress directly to source.
I had TB files and just no space to have both a copy and the result, IIRC the speed was also obviously better without copying.