Sonarr - How to troubleshoot fake downloads

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hi! In the last few months, the amount of fake torrents I’m getting automatically added to my downloads is starting to be really annoying. I want to find out which source is the culprit to remove it…How can I find what was the source of the added torrent? Where did it get it? What line do I need to look for in the logs? Or what event?

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skankhunt42@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I know this doesn’t answer your question but I’ve never had this kind of problem with Usenet. I pay $35 USD a year and bought a couple “lifetime” memberships 6 years ago.

What others have said should help solve the problem with torrents. If you can, it might be worth getting an account with a private site.

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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Have your torrent client not download malicious file types like .exe, doesn’t solve the immediate problem but it helps in two ways.

First you don’t help spread the nonsense.

Second qbit will mark the torrent as complete and sonarr will flag then flag it for manual import with the reason no valid files to import. They’re easy and quick to spot an reroll that way.

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- clb92@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I use Deluge, where it’s a bit more difficult, because it doesn’t have such filtering built in. I had to use the Execute plugin, and have it execute a script that checks the download filter upon completion, and deletes the download if it contains one or more dangerous filetypes.
  
  Is there any way to have Radarr/Sonarr automatically remove it from the queue if there are no importable files, instead of waiting for manual intervention?
  
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  - Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I don’t believe so. Maybe someone’s written a script on github, I haven’t looked.
    
    A thing I like about lazylibrarian is that it just keeps rerolling until success. You probably miss good files just because LL couldn’t parse the folder structure or something, but it’s just set and forget.
    
    Not that I use LL, I just think it’s neat… From a purely onlooker POV.
    
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- ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yep, it’s how I solved it
  
  lemdro.id/post/15143286
  
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  - Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Here’s my list, saved you a click. Ignore the *.iso, I added that for the seven seas people’s. Obviously all I share are Linux ISOs
    
    *.exe
    
    *.sh
    
    *.lnk
    
    *.iso
    
    *.zip
    
    *.zipx
    
    *.iz
    
    *.izh
    
    *.arj
    
    *.scr
    
    *.lnk
    
    *.cmd
    
    *.msi
    
    *.bat
    
    *.scf
    
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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Activity -> history -> “i” button.

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- plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What this person said to find where it came from and sonarr also has a new setting per indexer to fail unsafe downloads, the only drawback is you have to let your downloader download the file in the first place.
  
  The alternative is blocking the files with your download client by extension and then manual intervention.
  
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truxnell@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Consider reviewing trash-guides.info which helps pickup best releases, and yeah review/consider your trackers, some are horrible for zero quality cobtrol

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yaroto98@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Here’s a comment I made on a similar post

lemmy.org/comment/1625947

Not every download client supports blocking filetypes.

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