[tecleandor]

Was there any problem with 7z some years ago? I feel like I've been actively avoiding it for having the feeling that I've read something bad about it, but I can't remember what. But I could've mixed it with something else. It sometimes happens to me.

[oblio]

Hard to say for sure, did SourceForge put malware in their installers many millennia ago?

[tecleandor]

Ah, I think I might remember a couple RCE they had... [0]

So for Windows use I then started to recommend a fork called NanaZip [1] that enabled some Windows security features (CFG, CET, Package Integrity Check...) and added support for additional formats that other forks already had [2] [3].

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  0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip#Security
  1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
  2: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
  3: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis

[jcotton42]

NanaZip also works with the Windows 11 File Explorer context menu changes.