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when downloading movies, series and anime they mostly come in those formats. Can they contain virus? if yes, do they get detected with antivirus?

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[–] balance_sheet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally any file can be a virus. It's not a matter of file extension.

[–] QuarterlySushi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, but the difference is that VLC can’t execute code, and if you change the file extension to MP4 then a media player is going to try to open it.

So yeah it could contain a virus, but I think getting hit with that code is almost completely impossible.