The original post: /r/torrents by /u/American_Jesus on 2024-09-28 14:37:58.

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