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Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file that is less than 24 hours old. I was streamed using VLC version 3.0.20 form the repose on Linux.

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[–] Julian_1_2_3_4_5@slrpnk.net 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if you really only played it and it didn't abuse some zero day in vlc (extremely unlikely), the there's basically zero chance you could have activated a virus.

[–] Julian_1_2_3_4_5@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

But it's definitely possible to ship a virus embedded in a playable mkv file, but something else would have to extract it first, for it to do anything