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Firefox gave me a warning about a .torrent file I downloaded; I deleted the file and didn't open it in qBittorrent

I gave a quick scan of my PC after I deleted it with malwarebytes and Avira but neither found anything

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Probably FF being overzealous. I would just double check that the file is definitely a torrent and not named something like ReallyCoolStuff.torrent.exe.

[–] osanna@thebrainbin.org 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

protip on this front: Turn off hiding file extensions in file explorer. Then you will see if it's an exe or not. I don't know why tf windows turns that on by default. It's stupid.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This default setting is easily one of the stupidest and most costly mistakes in the history of computer engineering. It is incomprehensible that they have insisted on keeping it this way since XP.

It literally just begs you to ask "why does this picture have a .jpg extension while the rest don't?" before double-clicking on it to find out more.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 7 points 23 hours ago

"I want my important desktop document to be called 'QDROP FWD FROM GRANDMA', not 'QDROP FWD FROM GRANDMA.docx' I am not a hacker!!!" - average windoze UX focus group participant, probably