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  • https://github.com/cleanuparr/cleanuparr
    by riley_dog
  • Everything got flooded with those exes, not just South Park. All most seeded TV episodes on most public trackers were (are?) those EXEs. It will be interesting to know who launched the attack.
    by josu
  • > It even grabs your Sticky Notes for WHAT????

    The whole sticky notes next to monitor is not a joke. I bet you could grab some crypto recovery keys this way

    by Havoc
  • This event is probably related to ITorrent (a torrent hosting site) being compromised, it was hosting a very similar malware: https://threatcluster.io/cluster/itorrentsorg-compromised-to...

    For a while all torrents downloaded from that site where replaced by a torrent of simple exe, it disguised itself by using a directory icon, plus having 800M of padding to simulate a real torrent.

    by rbran
  • If you are too lazy to join private trackers, at least use TraSH guides to set up quality profiles

    https://trash-guides.info/

    by shmoil
  • Joining private trackers is hard only if you are trying to join the niche ones which is totally unnecessary if you are trying to watch relatively recent and popular movies.

    Just get into a decent general tracker and you'll literally never have this issue again (along with getting torrents with more seeders and better tagged content so your "4k" download will never be 480p again)

    by ShowalkKama
  • > Not even a folder with a fake .mkv and a "codec installer" next to it like the "good old days". Just the exe. Are we deadass.

    We can thank Microsoft for their willful support of criminals by having file extensions be hidden by default in Windows.

    by machomaster
  • Sonarr has an advanced setting in "Settings > Indexers > [Your indexer] > Fail Downloads" which you should add "Executables" to. Then these kinds of downloads get automatically marked as failed/blacklisted and a new search and new download is attempted without you needing to manually intervene. You may also have to tweak some conflicting settings on qbit.

    Alternatively, if there's a way to have qbit itself mark the download as "Failed" when it detects and refuses to download an executable, that would work too. I don't use qbit personally so I don't know if that's a thing it can be configured to do.

    by bhaney

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