The original post: /r/torrents by /u/CancerTomato on 2025-01-18 05:55:06.

Hello,

I noticed sonarr had downloaded a new episode that wasn't released yet, but I remember when GOT had a few episodes leaked. I had never heard of the mkv.lnk viruses before so I stupidly renamed the file to remove the .lnk extension and tried opening it in VLC to no avail. I run linux and I opened the file with VLC, so I am assuming that as long as the virus does not exploit VLC or a codec in some way I should be fine? I doubt the virus meant to be executed normally on Windows as a program would target any VLC or codec vulnerabilities?

What do you guys know about these .mkv.lnk viruses?