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by Tsiklon 19 days ago
Partly, windows defender can open and scan the contents of many archives, but extraction of several popular formats isn’t possible
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Sohcahtoa82 19 days ago
That makes no god damn sense.

That means that the code to extract exists on the file system, but only Windows Defender uses it.

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r 18 days ago
It doesn’t “make no goddam sense”. it’s just not convenient for you. There are so many potential “valid” reasons. Licensing? Bad optics?
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