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I'm seeing thepiratebay org is discouraged because it has lots of viruses due to lack of moderation. I was wondering how could an mp4 or an mkv etc. could be harmful? Are people talking about executable stuff?

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[–] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aah okay, thanks. Yeah, I'm on Linux already and only ever view files from a client that only shows media files. I've found some more recommended alternatives and will use them going forward. I was just looking to see if I should delete the stuff I had from tpb but doesn't seem necessary.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Link files will show the .lnk extension on Linux and it should be obvious from the icon that it's not a video file. If you have wine installed, then double clicking one will run it and malware can still cause problems when run in wine.

If your torrent client has the option to run a script or command when a download completes, you could have it delete all .lnk files in the download directory. Something like find /path/to/my/download/directory -type f -iname "*.lnk" -delete would work.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

It should also be obvious in your torrent client as it will be listed there with the full file name.