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submitted 5 months ago by Thebay to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Not really, but you can get a virus from movie.mkv.exe, which will probably show up in windows as "movie.mkv" but will actually run a program.

That being said, I've never actually seen this in the wild and it was mainly talked about in the mp3 era.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

I've seen many a ROM be SuperMarioBros3.exe just straight up, but never .nes.exe so idk if that counts.

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