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Originally Posted by gottabekd
For clarification: A rar is an archive file. It is not executable, and cannot infect you with a virus just by opening and extracting it. Of course, any executable files inside may (and in this case) likely have a virus.
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It's possible that there is an exploit in the format that allows for execution of code upon decompression. I believe there was a similar issue with an image format (jpeg?) on windows a year or two ago.
If one is really curious, just open it up in a virtualized instance of something like Ubuntu linux.