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.

  • Go to Options -> Downloads

  • Enable “Exclude file names”

  • 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

  • ad_on_is@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Microsoft: De nada, amigo! Oh… here’s an ad, btw… and…did you enable Recall already?

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      or rather: oh silly you were so clumsy that you disabled recall by accident again. let us be so kind to re-enable it for you