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PSA/HOWTO: Avoid fake mkv torrents. Avoid getting hacked (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are some torrrents showing up with .lnkextension (ex: movie.mp3.lnk, tvshow.mkv.lnk...) and automated software (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, qBittorrent RSS Downloader) could pick those torrents (but not import).

These (fake) torrents include a .lnk file that executes a script on your Windows

HOW TO exclude from download on qBittorrent.

Go to Options -> Downloads
Enable "Exclude file names"
Add patterns:

(one by line)

*.mp4.lnk  
*.mp3.lnk  
*.mkv.lnk
*.torrent.lnk

Or exclude all together: *.lnk

Example on VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e74f64df6ebaf3a1b6e3f42591eb6e87d2ac2828eb5a99fd8d3d82c140137fc9/detection

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 month ago (2 children)

thanks Microsoft for hiding extensions by default!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Microsoft: De nada, amigo! Oh... here's an ad, btw... and...did you enable Recall already?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Have you tried setting your region to Europe? it's not an issue here

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

or rather: oh silly you were so clumsy that you disabled recall by accident again. let us be so kind to re-enable it for you

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, but also whoever set the defaults for the *arr tools. Why would any filename with extra shit past the extensions you're looking for be considered an acceptable result?

Tack $ on the end of your regex, for fucks sake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is not regex
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/17106

Examples
*.exe: filter '.exe' file extension.
readme.txt: filter exact file name.
?.txt: filter 'a.txt', 'b.txt' but not 'aa.txt'.
readme[0-9].txt: filter 'readme1.txt', 'readme2.txt' but not 'readme10.txt'