Charadon@lemmy.sdf.orgtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file.English
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4 months agoIn theory, you could make a fake executable with the mkv file extension on a unix system, by making it a shell script with a bunch of garbage data at the end, marking it executable, and distributing it with a tarball. But the chances someone will do that is insanely low.
Also it has caveats:
- It’d rely on your double clicking it, and having your file manager not warning you about it.
- Video players wouldn’t run the shell script code, if it’d run the file at all.
Magic Wormhole protocol. There’s a lot of clients out there. Here’s some: