I hope we get “Full Circle - No Doubt.mp3.exe” :)

No doubt. :D

The problem is your roommate, your parent, or 3am you double clicking it in the downloads folder. (do NOT execute execute the skid malware)>

Yeah, like any of those scrubs has access to any folders of any importance.

I actually saw this last night while I was looking for another setting. Why would I ever want sonarr to download an executable, and why would they think I'd want it that way by default? It made me wonder if I was missing something.

I'd never do such a thing either!

When this happened to me it always seemed to be episodes that hadn't actually aired yet. I ended up installing swurapp (automatically unmonitors episodes until they've aired, to stop them being grabbed) and haven't had it happen since.

I disagree. I have some private trackers, but I never use 'em anymore, mostly due to ratio requirements. I just don't have the space on my local drive to hold and seed all those files forever. Spending a bit of time on your initial *arr configs, means everything just works, even using all public trackers. I can't remember the last time my system grabbed a wrong/bad file. Been dialed in for years at this point.

Yeah depends on the tracker some just credit you for seeding at all which helps people like you with bad upload.

I did have mine up and running in windows some years ago before I switched my daily driver, yes.

Rargb included a .exe which if you changed to .txt was just a message saying don't reupload. It was to prevent indexers or something with basic "don't download .exe" rules. So that is probably why it is not fail by default in Sonarr for everyone? I don't know for sure but it is something.

This shit is why I never used the arr stack. Never automate incoming data. It fetches what I intend it to fetch.

“Why do I need to download 7zip? That’s too hard. Everything should be a self-extracting exe!”

A few moments later…

Shit like this is why I’m done with public trackers.

What do you use instead?

Wait, wtf, this isn't on by default??

It's reasonable to be annoyed by this.

I've built automatic tools within client software that handle file types and basic security better than this, < 5 years into my career as an inexperienced dev.

It's crazy that not only is executable downloading not blocked by default for a media downloader, but as fast as I can tell it's not even doing magic bytes based format detection...?

Eh. I use Usenet and honestly the reliability sucks. I almost never successfully get quality media from there. It's either missing too many blocks, doesn't exist, or is grossly mislabeled.

I have never used a private tracker and have got everything I ever wanted allegedly from just googling... I really don't see the need for private trackers especially with the upload ratio in mind...

Bittorrent

Next Sonarr release will have this.

I've been getting exe's and such since I've been using the tech for a decade or more, though it does seem to be more common lately. I only wish sonarr would have an option to automatically blacklist and search. But at least now it does have an option to fail the download before even attempting to import it.