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Home > Software > 7-zip gains Mark-of-the-Web security feature

7-zip gains Mark-of-the-Web security feature

7-zip has just built up long-awaited support for Mark-of-the-Web Windows security feature to improve protection from malicious downloaded files.


Hanife Diktas Hanife Diktas
June 22, 2022
1 min read
7-zip gains Mark-of-the-Web security feature

7-Zip, a free and open-source file archiver finally added an assist for Mark-of-the-Internet windows security characteristic, extending higher protection from hostile downloaded information. 7-Zip file archiving program is one of the most popular in the world, although until now, it did not have support for Mark-of-the-Web.

The feature was demanded for a long time

When an archive was downloaded from the Internet and extracted with 7-zip, the Mark-of-the-Web file would not be generated. This causes Windows not to treat those files as dangerous. Because of this, Microsoft Office would not open the file in Protected View. For several years, many developers, engineers, and security advisers have demanded the file archiver 7-Zip build a safety feature for its archiving service.

It's very important in Windows security I'd say, Kinda shocked so few archivers maintain it.

It's what makes Office block downloaded documents as untrustworthy, and it's kinda useless if malware simply zip the files and then get the user to extract them (removing the MOTW).

— arnastia (@arnastia) May 2, 2022

Even though 7-Zip developer Igor Pavlov once said he did not want to support the feature as it needed extra overhead to the program, all this changed last week after the company added a new feature in 7-zip 22.00 which enables to generate MoTW flows.

Windows will now remind you whether to run downloaded files and Microsoft Office will open documents in Protected View.

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Hanife Diktas

Hanife Diktas

Hanife Diktas is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Hanife started her career in the manufacturing sector in the marketing and sales department. Hanife worked in industrial equipment, renewable energy, and technology sectors. Hanife Diktas did her bachelor's degree in business administration and completed a master's degree in management at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. Hanife is a Linux user, and she also contributed to AlmaLinux OS at the beginning of the project. Hanife focuses on web hosting, cloud computing, data centers, cybersecurity, Linux OS, and virtualization technologies. Hanife enjoys creating content and shooting videos covering these topics.

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