#Is uniextract safe archive#
#Is uniextract safe free#

Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). So, the conclusion is - it's not safe to use things like Universal Extractor for unpacking malicious files. The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information.

Some of these tools are also outdated (InstallExplorer, for example - very nice FAR plugin, but crashes on some newer versions of the supported archives) - so I'm sure there are vulnerabilities of some kind, if anybody bothered to look for them. Because Universal Extractor 'author' didn't write these tools, he doesn't know how they work. I'm not sure if Universal Extractor includes any of those (but I think it does - I can see AspackDie.exe there, which is very likely exactly this type of tool for dumping ASPack).

#Is uniextract safe free#

PeaZip is mainly written in Free Pascal, using Lazarus.

#Is uniextract safe archive#

It supports its native PEA archive format and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats. This is of course unacceptable for unpacking malicious files - you activate the malware this way. PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. Now, there are lots of 'unpackers' out there, for various executable packers, that 'work' by simply starting the program, stopping it at some point (if everything goes well), dumping it from memory to disk and then fixing the structure somehow. I'm not very familiar with Universal Extractor - but I know it's not a standalone program, but rather a huge number of third party tools of various age, packed together and controlled by a simple(?) wrapper (which detects the format somehow and then calls the corresponding unpacker I can see PEiD and TrID inside, so even the detection is performed by external tools). It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats. The unpackers in an antivirus engine make sure that the file being unpacked is not started by accident (speaking mostly about executable unpackers now. Updated PEiD detection of Microsoft SFX cab files for more reliable extraction Updated some UniExtract window sizes for better internationalization. PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. The main difference I'd see here, however, is security. Well, the inability to unpack the files (and keep them unpacked) is basically just an artificial limitation (it's certainly not a problem for us to leave the unpacked file on disk, if we'd like ).