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Grandma we only use torrents for games, or to transfer things. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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 🤷

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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

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