BleepingComputerMicrosoft is adding native support for RAR, 7-Zip, and GZ archives to an upcoming version of Windows 11 expected this week.
Jerry 🦙💝🦙Super. Now we can open the .rar malware that comes in via email without any additional software @BleepingComputer
Kevin Karhan 
Alexander The 1st@kkarhan @jerry @BleepingComputer I was going to say - wouldn't the delivery mechanism be by a .zip malformed domain?
Lesley Carhart 
@jerry @BleepingComputer mmmmmm my feelings are quite mixed
Taggart 
@hacks4pancakes @jerry @BleepingComputer My question is whether it'll ship with ASAR support, allowing us to easily crack open all those lovely Electron apps.
Tindra@hacks4pancakes @jerry @BleepingComputer yeah, people not trying to install weird stuff to unpack their legit packed files has some definite positives.
Matt Cengia@jerry do average people still actually *use* RAR files anymore? Feels like Microsoft would be better served scrapping RAR and adding BZ2 , LZ, XZ, Zstd, etc.
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Cameron@mattcen I’ve been told .RAR is much more popular than .zip in certain foreign countries, perhaps due to the close relation with torrenting.
Ichinin 
✅🎯🙄@mattcen @jerry @BleepingComputer Average people don't but some malware actors use rar for collecting and exfiltrating data.
Johannes 
@jerry @BleepingComputer what's next? a .rar TLD?
kaoudis
Jim Mahony@jerry @BleepingComputer yea, we would have been just fine without this
Sergei Vasilevsky@jerry @BleepingComputer will this change also bring better native support for strong archive encryption (e.g. AES256, as opposed to zipcrypto which takes less than a minute to crack)? We shouldn’t have to choose between broken encryption and running a 3rd party tool, which carries its own risk
For I am CJ 
All we need now is for someone to approve a .rar top level domain!
smuglispweenie@jerry "Without downloading additional malware".