• kureta@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      6 个月前

      I got a virus only once and it was a boot sector virus on a floppy disk. 💾 👴🏼

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    6 个月前

    I actually never got a virus from torrenting back in the day. I never could understand why everyone got viruses and why people could never get software packages to work by reading the instructions. People would say “this doesn’t work.” I’d install and it would work the first time I tried. Seemed like all software torrents had the same stupid comments with perfectly good wares.

  • benny@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    6 个月前

    The only viruses I ever got were on irc warez (pretty harmless too). I got smart by the time torrents came around. lol

      • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 个月前

        Thats my attitude. Torrents have risks but so do random Russian streaming sites. By now I have it going with Jellyfin and *arr and I barely have to think about it

        • glibg10b@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          Torrents aren’t risky for movies as long as you don’t have “Hide file extensions” turned on. Unless someone’s wasting their zero-day video player exploit on you, which is unlikely, you wont find malware in an mp4 or mkv unless it’s actually an exe in disguise

          • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            01·
            6 个月前

            sry, but that’s just straight up wrong. You can hide malware in video files (both mp4 and mkv are great containers!) and you can disguise your virus as a video.

            • glibg10b@lemmy.zipEnglish
              11·
              6 个月前

              That’s like encoding malware in a picture and calling it dangerous

              • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                01·
                6 个月前

                yes? opening a picture with malware could infect your computer.

                It would be a combination attack, so the virus would either target the correct media player or several of em.

                here is a older vulnurability with vlc and avi file https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25801

                it is absolutely far less risky than downloading programs that run code, but it’s not without any risk

                edit: windows programs also lets files call home. Script Command in windows media player f.ex 🤷

                • glibg10b@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  11·
                  6 个月前

                  Like I said, no one’s wasting a 0-day on a lemming like you or me

            • # whoami@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              01·
              6 个月前

              But malware wrapped as video (or any other doc or media format) still needs to be executed, right? So if you don’t give that file execute permission (which Linux doesn’t give by default) and open it through media player or something, could said potential malware still run? I thought it couldn’t unless the player itself is vulnerable

      • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        6 个月前

        The meme suggests extensions. Lol. That’s an odd flex. Sounds manual and tedious as fuck compared to arr/sick rage/etc

        “Move along grandma, your automobile is no good, we use camels”