There are some torrrents showing up with .lnkextension (ex: movie.mp3.lnk, tvshow.mkv.lnk…) and automated software (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, qBittorrent RSS Downloader) could pick those torrents (but not import).
These (fake) torrents include a .lnk file that executes a script on your Windows
HOW TO exclude from download on qBittorrent.
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Go to Options -> Downloads
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Enable “Exclude file names”
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Add patterns:
(one by line)
*.mp4.lnk
*.mp3.lnk
*.mkv.lnk
*.torrent.lnk
Or exclude all together: *.lnk
Example on VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e74f64df6ebaf3a1b6e3f42591eb6e87d2ac2828eb5a99fd8d3d82c140137fc9/detection
What if it executes and install Windows 11 on your machine!?
Oh lord please have mercy! Blacklisting the file extension right now!
ackshually the proprietary .lnk shortcut format can only be run on windows 🤓
A Linux executable can’t be named ending on .lnk? 🤔🤔
Making such a polyglot that can run on both systems requires much more effort for little gain.
But its not lnk but an executable that needs to be excecuted manually?