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Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

57 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 20 comments

bhaney 29 minutes ago

Sonarr has an advanced setting in "Settings > Indexers > [Your indexer] > Fail Downloads" which you should add "Executables" to. Then these kinds of downloads get automatically marked as failed/blacklisted and a new search and new download is attempted without you needing to manually intervene. You may also have to tweak some conflicting settings on qbit.

Alternatively, if there's a way to have qbit itself mark the download as "Failed" when it detects and refuses to download an executable, that would work too. I don't use qbit personally so I don't know if that's a thing it can be configured to do.

shmoil 58 minutes ago

If you are too lazy to join private trackers, at least use TraSH guides to set up quality profiles

https://trash-guides.info/

gradstudent 23 minutes ago

Join how, exactly, and for what benefit? The private trackers I've heard of are not open or you have to pay to join (lol!). From what I understand they also maintain ratios and seeders race to get credit for newly uploaded files. Its the 2026 version of the 90s warez courier scene. I bet theres a leaderboard somewhere with weektop and sitetop numbers. I'm too old for that shit.

lelandfe 6 minutes ago

> The private trackers I've heard of are not open… From what I understand they also maintain ratios and seeders race to get credit for newly uploaded files. Its the 2026 version of the 90s warez courier scene

TBF this isn’t a revival of some 90s thing, this is just how private trackers have been. What was the same in the aughts, for instance.

torben-friis 13 minutes ago

You can get into some not paying. You're just required to either have a minimum ratio or share several days, whatever's reached sooner (so you don't get stuck sharing something nobody wants for eternity).

In practice, it's just adding an API key, setting a rule in the app to remove after x and then you can go back to ignoring it.

SSLy 6 minutes ago

I'm on them for over 10 years. Last time I've cared about ratio was 9.

riley_dog 29 minutes ago

https://github.com/cleanuparr/cleanuparr

Havoc 47 minutes ago

> It even grabs your Sticky Notes for WHAT????

The whole sticky notes next to monitor is not a joke. I bet you could grab some crypto recovery keys this way

para_parolu 28 minutes ago

Ince I discovered usenet I rarely want to deal with torrents

stronglikedan 17 minutes ago

As someone who still pays for usenet, the benefit of torrents is anything older than a couple of days, since stuff gets pulled from usenet servers almost as soon as it's posted. Of course, if you have everything pre-configured to find and grab everything you're interested in, you won't even notice, but sometimes I just get an itch to watch something older off the cuff, and that's where torrents shine.

dd_xplore 44 minutes ago

The same happens for other series as well! I was frustrated with it! Good thing you decompiled this monstrosity

joloooo 53 minutes ago

Haven't seen this on usenet so far. Wonder if its more torrent prone.

bhaney 26 minutes ago

It's by far the most common on public torrent trackers, but I occasionally see it on usenet too. Never bothered to check which indexers they tend to come from.

redrove 42 minutes ago

Got this in my sabnzbd instance and had to do .exe rules there too. An exe in a linux container…very smart.

I’m as upset as OP, get a job skid.

hoppp 22 minutes ago

An excellent read. Thank you. I enjoyed it!

comrade1234 2 hours ago

Tell your downloader (in my case qbittorrent) to not download .exe, .scr, .zip, etc, etc, etc. It’s been this way for years. You do have to clean out qbittorrent every few days so that sonarr will search again, so that’s a pain. But hey, I’m pirating media. Someone trying to scam me at the same time is expected.

yborg 33 minutes ago

Yeah, this whole post felt like some weird deja vu from 25 years ago on a web forum. "Bastards are putting malware exe's on file sharing, wtf??"

queenkjuul 29 minutes ago

Join a private tracker and never think about it again

serf 20 minutes ago

yeah!

let's all join a private tracker!

that'll fix the problem, the bad actors won't chase the crowd, and it definitely wont end in a burning of the library of alexandria loss-of-history what.cd style event again and again if the public can't archive it.

how about we just create an exe/bat/com exclusion on our dumb-as-dick media downloaders like sensible people have been doing for 30+ years?

hparadiz 37 minutes ago

This has been a thing since torrents have existed.