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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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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.