nmantani/archiver-MOTW-support-comparison

WinRAR and MOTW

jernejs opened this issue · 1 comments

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:

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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:

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?36977-How-to-Install-Ai-Suite-3!-(For-People-Who-Cannot-install-the-new-AI-Suite-3)/page5

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.

Thank you so much for valuable information! I have corrected the comparison table and added a note with 83b57b4 .