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

    • Aatube
      5•3 months ago

      That would seem suspicious. I’m sure they have some way to pad out the size.

      • @catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        Anyone paying attention to size would probably also notice they’re just .lnk files.

        • Aatube
          3•3 months ago

          Not necessarily. Even with “hide extensions” unchecked, Windows hides the .lnk extension by default; it just shows an arrow in the bottom-right corner of the icon, which is plausibly missed when in the list view. I’m surprised antivirus doesn’t know about it already tbh.

    • @American_Jesus@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      Not these ones, some could have more than 1GB, look at the virustotal link, the file had 422MB.

      Also Sonarr/Radarr filter torrents by size

      Here some examples
      https://bt4gprx.com/search?q=The.Lord.of.The.Rings.The.Rings.of.Power.S02E08

      Those where posted on 1337x (and removed) and probably other sites, Sonarr can pick those based on release name and torrent size

      PS: had to rename the fine from .lnk to .com so virustotal could accept