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.
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
kern.exe.mp4 LOL
and the rest are 0days that sell for millions