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by pfg 2971 days ago
I don't know about 7-Zip specifically, but AV vendors use plenty of FOSS code. Here's some findings just from Google's P0 showing that Symantec[1], Bitdefender[2], Microsoft[3] and Avast[4] all use unrar in their products. It wouldn't be far-fetched to assume some might use 7-Zip for other archive formats.

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=81...

[2]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...

[3]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...

[4]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=57...