What does this strange error mean?

Question

Data archiving

A long time ago I archived some of my unnecessary folders into an archive using WinRAR. Now, a year later, I can't open this archive because it throws some strange error; Infection: Unable to share RAR files over the network and display an error. What does it mean? Maybe you should get rid of this archive?

Answer 1

You need to make sure that the archive really does not contain infection. This can be done by uploading the file to the VirusTotal website , which will check the file for infection with several dozen different antiviruses at the same time.

Answer 2

Copy the archive to C: first, then open. Regarding the "infection" - check the media where the archive is now, especially if it is a different computer, it can easily be that it has a virus on it.

Answer 3

There is nothing terrible in this, here on the website of the program www.erepairrar.com/ru it is said about such an error, and about the possibility of correcting it.
From myself, I can still advise you to try opening this archive with another archiver, for example 7zip. Google has a lot of information about winrar recovery.