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Tsiklon 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Window...

Partly, windows defender can open and scan the contents of many archives, but extraction of several popular formats isn’t possible

Sohcahtoa82 3 months 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.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 3 months 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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