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Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file. (lemmings.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file that is less than 24 hours old. I was streamed using VLC version 3.0.20 form the repose on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the reassurance. I won't worry about it. After some thought, I also believe it's unlikely some one have embed zero-day exploits into a movie torrent from LimeTorrent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, zero-days are usually expensive because attackers like to keep them pre zero-days once they are discovered their value diminishes significantly. So they are usually used for high value targets and not on random people downloading movies.