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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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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Yes.

Any file can present with a ".torrent" extension.

The likelihood of an actual application/x-bittorrent being a virus is low. You're more likely to get a virus from the thing the torrent directs to.