As in title. What’s your experience with it? If something isn’t executable, then it has to exploit vulnerability in order to run anything malicious. But does it happen often with mp4, mkv and other files like mp3 or epub?

I assume that if I use updated linux, then I’m mostly safe?

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    2 years ago

    Probably because the vast majority of the pirate software available is for Windows, and there’s no way that program will run natively on Linux.

    I mean, if I download a movie from freevirus(dot)com it is most likely that the movie will be a .mp4.exe and not a .mp4.sh.

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      2 years ago

      And even if it is a .sh file, you’d still have to change it’s permissions before it could do anything