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by solardev 1006 days ago
A lot of pirated games and office software were distributed as multi part RARs.

Uh, a friend told me.
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masklinn 1006 days ago
Yeah the combination of multipart and solid archives (for higher compression ratio) was quite nice once upon a time. Also solid self extraction IIRC?
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solardev 1006 days ago
> Also solid self extraction IIRC?

Yeah, with a risk of trojans. The usual advice then (as now) was to open that self-extractor up in the decompressor (WinRar/7zip) and manually extract it that way instead of letting it run itself.

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