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Re:Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by arkitaip on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:51PM (#11685801)
Not really sure why you would need regular releases for handing zip files, though.
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Re:Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by valarauca1 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:46PM (#11686184)
Windows handles zip files horribly.

The time to extract a 100MB zip in windows explorer is 4-6minutes (if not more). Compare this to ~30seconds in 7zip.

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Re:Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by dave2000 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @05:08PM (#11686803)
Windows ignores the partition you're unzipping to and writes to the c drive, then does a very slow, tedious move to the destination partition. It's obvious it should use the destination partition in the first place.
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