>tl;drHow can I make sure .zip/.rar archives allegedly containing only images are safe?
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Yo yo, I'm a wannabe artist and have seen anons putting up download links to image reference packs over at /ic/, here's two of those for example (DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM, the safety of that is why I'm making this thread):
https://gofile.io/d/kC1Dglhttps://gofile.io/d/sZmDVANow I'd like to download these packs but I don't wanna catch a virus.
I did a bit of research and up to today I thought that as long as you don't run any .exes and by looking out for file extensions (making sure the file browser has the option turned on to display them) that you're golden, with images it'd be especially safe considering those are only either jpegs or pngs or bitmaps or GIFs.
However, some people say that there's self-unzipping .rars as well meaning that the files I download won't sit there dormant but could deploy as soon as I finish downloading the archive, or that they'll deploy as soon as I unzip it. I tried copy pasting the download links to feed them into Virustotal but in the little bottom left corner I'm only getting "javascript:void(0);", which is useless to Virustotal, not to mention the file size is a bit over their file upload limit.
What do I do? Am I screwed? I won't risk getting a virus over some reference images but it'd still be a bummer to have to pass on them, they look pretty handy