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

  • American_JesusOPEnglish
    81·
    17 days ago17 days ago

    Is not regex
    https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/17106

    Examples
    *.exe: filter ‘.exe’ file extension.
    readme.txt: filter exact file name.
    ?.txt: filter ‘a.txt’, ‘b.txt’ but not ‘aa.txt’.
    readme[0-9].txt: filter ‘readme1.txt’, ‘readme2.txt’ but not ‘readme10.txt’