Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing thi...

tlrobinson · on June 13, 2013

Especially because they're not downloaded over HTTPS...

xmodem · on June 14, 2013

The URLs look like HTTPS to me?

bluedino · on June 13, 2013

And aren't signed.

simcop2387 · on June 13, 2013

for a lot of self extracting files, take a look at p7zip. It'll usually work on most of them, including some of the funky windows installers.

It's also great to pull data off a cd image without mounting, it.

marshray · on June 14, 2013

I'd think you could un-rar them manually.

mortenlarsen · on June 14, 2013

Yes you can. I just tested with unrar.

crazystone · on June 14, 2013

When I do as above. I got: "bash: ./IE8.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx: No such file or directory" What can I do?

xradionut · on June 13, 2013

I was assuming the built-in NSA access was making people uncomfortable. ;)

trust-me · on June 13, 2013

Naah, only good people get to rise to the top of the US politics. They would never abuse your data.

rbanffy · on June 13, 2013

Why not be comfortable with it? Unless, of course, you are one of those who have something to hide. ;-)

antman · on June 14, 2013

Welcome to the 8mil people club!