The.Odyssey.full.bluray.rip.avi.exe

Old tricks still work

Edit - Oh shit that’s exactly what they did.

The most popular initial executable was distributed through torrent trackers under many different names (for example, the odyssey (2026) [1080p] [webrip] [5.1].exe),

A big part of why this works, I think, is because windows hides extensions by default.

Jokes on them. I run a Linux distro.

I noticed there had been a few dodgy EXEs floating around recently. Not compatible with my OS but worrying nonetheless!

I run Linux myself but even on windows... if you have qbittorrent 5.1.2+ (not sure in earlier versions; had to open an old vm image to confirm the feature existed this far back)

then anyone who only pirates videos/music could just set qbittorrent > downloads > excluded file names to have *.exe on one of the lines and avoid this easily.

people who do pirate games/software could probably still add something like these to the same setting without disrupting their game/sw dls and still avoid 90+% of these kind of attacks:

*.avi.exe
*.flac.exe
*.mp3.exe
*.mp4.exe
*.mkv.exe
*.ogg.exe
*dvdrip*.exe
*webrip*.exe
*web.dl*.exe
*web-dl*.exe
*bluray*.exe
*1080p*.exe
*720p*.exe
*480p*.exe
*x264*.exe
*x265*.exe
*hvec*.exe
*av1*.exe
*imax*.exe
*aac5.1*.exe
*hdtv*.exe
*amzn*.exe
*hulu*.exe
*yify*.exe
*yts*.exe
*eztv*.exe

only spot it might need some fine tuning that i can think of is if you have the occasional fitgirl pack that has optional stuff for 720 vs 1080 videos as a selective download... and you should really be looking at those when you download anyway