Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.
Hey Shirish!
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 02:38:36AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
>>From the last few days/week I have been poking around torrent
>meta-search engines, While looking through, I noticed that the
>sometimes (not all the times) there have been occasions where the
>hashes have told to be a virus.
>
>Most recent example is
>https://torrentz2.eu/1193adc8d620b0e35ddcd7932f2d07f2992140c0
>
>As can be seen down below in the link, it has been labelled as a virus
>which may or may not be true.
We've had a few "virus" reports about our images ove the years, but
every one I've investigated has clearly been a false positive in the
virus checker involved. Many of them are proprietary, which of course
makes it difficult to debug the problem. :-/
>I dunno whom to approach, the page in question on Debian side
>
>See https://torrentz2.eu/1193adc8d620b0e35ddcd7932f2d07f2992140c0 as an e.g.
Do your links match the torrents that we've published? There's always
a possibility that people might be modifying them to add malware after
we're published, of course...
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