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
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
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.
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
no, these things would try to exploit the program that read them.
it’s not a likely attack vector, you need both a malware file, and the right program trying to read it. it might not also be transferrable across different os.
I’d be fucking nervous to torrent a game tbh, or at least a game that runs on PC. Like I’m not as concerned about my hacked 3DS getting a virus but, to each their own I guess…
Also I basically only torrent anime/shows and music so far…
uhhh people still be using torrents for movies and shows
nah, no way, absolutely not
I honestly don’t know how else to do it. I’m sure I could figure it out, but I don’t know why I’d fix what isn’t broken.
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”
camels sound based tho
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
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
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.
That’s like encoding malware in a picture and calling it dangerous
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 🤷
Like I said, no one’s wasting a 0-day on a lemming like you or me
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
no, these things would try to exploit the program that read them.
it’s not a likely attack vector, you need both a malware file, and the right program trying to read it. it might not also be transferrable across different os.
so yes, it needs a media player to attack. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25801 this one f.ex
I’d be fucking nervous to torrent a game tbh, or at least a game that runs on PC. Like I’m not as concerned about my hacked 3DS getting a virus but, to each their own I guess…
Also I basically only torrent anime/shows and music so far…