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.
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Go to Options -> Downloads
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Enable “Exclude file names”
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Add patterns:
(one by line)
*.mp4.lnk
*.mp3.lnk
*.mkv.lnk
*.torrent.lnk
*.zipx
*.scr
*.arj
*.lzh
Or exclude all together: *.lnk
Example on VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e74f64df6ebaf3a1b6e3f42591eb6e87d2ac2828eb5a99fd8d3d82c140137fc9/detection
thanks Microsoft for hiding extensions by default!
Microsoft: De nada, amigo! Oh… here’s an ad, btw… and…did you enable Recall already?
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
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.
Is not regex
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/17106Examples
*.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’
Also make sure you have file extensions enabled in Explorer, it makes it waaay harder for something like this to work.
Not using Windows helps a ton :)
Sonarr will still pick the release and download GBs of malware, and if you don’t notice your download directly is filled with GBs of fake torrents
We just deleted those failed to import periodically with an automation 😁
I use Arch btw
Me too, but don’t want to download GBs of malware and bandwidth
Weak.
Harbor disaster. Seed the malware. Spread the fruits of chaos amongst the unworthy. Be complicit in their downfall. Feed on their agony ^^/s.lnk files are less than 4kb
That would seem suspicious. I’m sure they have some way to pad out the size.
Anyone paying attention to size would probably also notice they’re just .lnk files.
What if it executes and install Windows 11 on your machine!?
Oh lord please have mercy! Blacklisting the file extension right now!
