The Unarchiver 4+

Malware is malicious software designed to cause harm or disruption to computers, as defined on wikipedia. You moved this application to the bin through your filesystem instead of clicking your name in the bottom left corner of the app store, clicking the three dots, and pressing uninstall. Calling this software malware in a public review isn’t only false, it is slanderous and harmful to the trust of the developer behind the software. If you reinstall this software, it is likely that the files that remain on your system from your botched deletion process will be overwritten, allowing you to delete the software using the method I have provided.

The Unarchiver is a Swiss army knife of methods to open a variety of archived folders and file formats. Some of these are already present on MacOS’s Archive Utility, but older and more obscure formats aren’t supported by Apple’s software for decompression. Some of these formats types are StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ, and ARC. You can also unarchive ISO/BIN disc images and Windows .EXE installers using this tool. The types of applications this tool can have are recovering old information from a business or personal storage, modifying application data as a hobby and learning experience for software deconstruction and development, and the utilities you’d normally use 7zip or winrar for. Overall, this is a comprehensive package of decompression tools I thoroughly enjoy.

I tried different apps to be able to extract .rar archives the same way Mac extracts .zip archives - without having to open a separate software, without having weird and ugly icons for each .rar archives. Unarchvier finally does that. It works like a nice utility that does it job in the background - I just double click a .rar archive and it gets extracted in the same folder. It works just like extracting a .zip archive natively on Mac. I don't think I ever opened the actual app. Perfect.

I thought i’d give it a go. The built-in compression tool in macOS merely unzips when I want to just see what is inside the ZIP file (I was brought up on WinZip and PCs - soz).

Installed. Double-click ZIP files. The Unarchiver unzips exactly as the built-in macOS tool. The difference I see is that you can tweak where to and what to do with the Archive after content is unzipped. However (and this was the sole reason for me giving it a try), zero option to view inside ZIP files.

Okay, so it is what it is. Delete it and remove from my Mac.

Easier said than done. I can get it as far as the Bin, but from there it is impossible to remove. The option to use it remains in the Context menu and if invoked, it will run - despite having been deleted. I tried and tried to delete it from the Bin, but something is stopping that action.

Back when i was a victim of Windows, that sort of behaviour was known to me as Malware. Perhaps Mac users have a different term for it, but that is what it is according to my experience and Windows background - Malware.

I really wish I hadn’t installed it to try and will be more carefully reading Reviews BEFORE installing any other compression utility to try…