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[–] 9 points 1 hour ago* (1 child)

I was also flabbergasted when I observed this. No idea why this is not default, but you can configure "Fail downloads" = "Executables", "Potentially dangerous" in the Sonarr Indexer options to prevent these downloads. Enable advanced settings first.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 hours ago* (3 children)

    I don't know why you are annoyed by this.

    You use an automatic tool. It's bound to fail or make a mistake once in a while.

    The "uploader" likely knew this, so they had some fun. It's not like what you are doing is legal or anything. "Le me go complain on my blog about someone messing with how I do my illegal activites".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    This seems like a one off for them, but for me whenever tracking ongoing TV series I would regularly get malicious files as they appear before the real ones, and get found and downloaded by sonarr.

    These days I only automate from private trackers, and enable a public tracker for an interactive search only if something can't be found on the private trackers.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 minutes ago

    The private trackers, I am looking at going back to te high seas but the cost of some of the trackers and usenet sites are high, then a debrid and I am kijd kf back where I was.

    Are there dcent free private trackers?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 hours ago

    As annoying as this is, I agree. It's a case of automate better or add a confirmation layer to the download decision.

    The reason I don't auto-DL anything yet is cos I'm too lazy to spend hours making sure it's setup correctly.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    I remember spotting this when the Mario Galaxy film came out. The top seed was a 2GB exe.

    I hope we come full circle and we get "Avril Lavine - Girlfriend.mp3.exe"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    I know that qBit has an "excluded file name" option so just add *.exe to it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    I've been hit by this a few times recently too. No ill effects other than needing to clear it from the queue thankfully.

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