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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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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/406695/reading-the-fileset-from-a-torrent

you can read them with some libraries, and check in vm, but seems very doubtful, it can, however, download some shady shit you don't expect