“I think for the common use case of distributing gigabytes of data in a reasonably efficient way, 7zip is fine.” Hacker News · 4 years ago
For those who regularly handle these archives, the experience is often about balancing security with the need for high compression.
“RAR files are not inherently dangerous... but be aware that files within a RAR file can be dangerous; malware has been known to spread via RAR files.” Lifewire · 4 years ago
The file appeared on a forgotten forum at 3:00 AM: .
“I think for the common use case of distributing gigabytes of data in a reasonably efficient way, 7zip is fine.” Hacker News · 4 years ago
For those who regularly handle these archives, the experience is often about balancing security with the need for high compression.
“RAR files are not inherently dangerous... but be aware that files within a RAR file can be dangerous; malware has been known to spread via RAR files.” Lifewire · 4 years ago
The file appeared on a forgotten forum at 3:00 AM: .
