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Although they come from Microsoft, I don't feel enormously comfortable doing this:

    chmod +x LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx; ./LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx

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

And aren't signed.

The URLs look like HTTPS to me?

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.

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

Yes you can. I just tested with unrar.

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

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

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

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

Welcome to the 8mil people club!