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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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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

And your device may never get the updates fixing the issue.

There were many cases just in the past decade that involved mobile phones software (the devices most notoriously running outdated software) or their hardware accelerated decoding feature, but if you use VLC than you must also be familiar with it's security updates.