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Greetings, Brian Cowan!

Please bottom post in this list. And trim unnecessary quoting.

> Well, is it possible to use 7zip? It seems like you can do something like
> it in:
> https://superuser.com/questions/42788/is-it-possible-to-execute-a-file-after-extraction-from-a-7-zip-self-extracting-a

> Not that I think this would help with heuristics, and some AV tools REALLY
> don't like executing things from users' temp directories. (Which .Net
> applications seem to like to do sometimes.)

> Maybe have compressed and uncompressed installers?

This is such a rare occurrence, that we could simply post instructions on how
to unpack the installer, for whom it is a problem.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, September 3, 2022 16:00:09

Sorry for my terrible english...


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