not a bad idea if your average file size is a terabyte and there’s never a sure way to get a clean binary.

Didn’t this used to be done? I’m sure I remember finding .exe zip files and being surprised it wasn’t just a virus.

Self extracting executables, (zip files with the decoder included) have been around for decades.

7zip has a feature called `7-Zip self-extracting (SFX) archive`.