WinRAR and MOTW
jernejs opened this issue · 1 comments
jernejs commented
According to Eugene Roshal (WinRAR's author), WinRAR sets MOTW for Office formats, but not other types, because it was causing problems with some installers:
Hello,
It is intentional. Beginning from WinRAR 5.20 we set it only
for MS Office file formats.Some installers failed to work properly after assigning this stream
and it hurt WinRAR reputation rather badly. For example, search for
"Download 7Zip (I previously had winrar)" here:Eugene
It appears that at least WinRAR 6.11 doesn't propagate
mark-of-the-web (zone.identifier NTFS stream) when extracting files
from archives downloaded from the internet. Is this intentional?
IIRC, older versions did propagate MOTW.