But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a 7-Zip exploit that sneaks past Windows’ normal wariness of downloaded files. Discovered by Trend Micro ...

Though 7-Zip probably still beats Windows 11's native file archiving performance, in terms of file support though, the former is lagging and is having to play catch-up. With beta version 24.01 ...

Windows 11 is getting a speed boost when dealing with bulky ZIPs – but this is more about fixing poor performance than providing super-snappy unzipping.