Received 3 rar files via email ?

Hi,

They are supposed to be pictures, but they end with .rar, and when I opened one of them, it opened a text in notepad, can someone tell me what they really are?

I uploaded the files here:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=lcg38z6scdb

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=97hzrwplo3b

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=9sf2ph8jlvb

The .rar indicates that the file is compressed, similar to .tar or .zip using the Roshal ARchive methodology.

You would need to use a decompression tool to extract the files. They are actually .jpg picture files.

I ran one through VirusTotal and it came back with 0 detections out of 32 different malware detectors tried.

It sounds as if you don't have a decompression tool, or, if you do, files with a .rar extension are not associated with it?

You can get a free utility here:

http://www.altools.com/

It is called "ALZip" :)

http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar371.exe

You can get WinRar there. Its an evaluation copy but ive been using it for a year now ...

Nihil explained the main of it.

7-Zip will handle RAR's and it's open-source:

http://www.7-zip.org/

Hmm, thanks brokencrow ...