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PSA/HOWTO: Avoid fake mkv torrents. Avoid getting hacked (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 7 points 13 hours 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

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 2 hours ago

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